Making our voices heard : young adult females writing participatory fan fiction / Susanna Coleman -- Going deep : what online sports culture teaches us about the rhetorical future of social networks / Michael R. Trice -- Spoiling Heroes, enhancing our viewing pleasure : NBC's Heroes and the re-shaping of the televisual landscape / Marina Hassapopoulou -- History, the trace, and Fandom Wank / Karen Hellekson -- Writing wonder women : how playful resistance leads to sustained authorial participation at Sequential Tart / Kimberly DeVries -- What the Frell happened? Rhetorical strategies of the Farscape community / Sean Morey -- The realtime forum fan / Thomas B. Cavanagh -- "As seen on The Colbert Report" : or, why I love reality TV / Georgiana O. Miller -- Making our voices heard : young adult females writing participatory fan fiction / Susanna Coleman -- Conf(us)(ess)ions of a videogame role-player / Zach Waggoner -- Alternate universes on video : ficvid and the future of narrative / Kim Middleton -- Dean, Mal and Snape walk into a bar : lessons in crossing over / Julie Flynn -- Stars of a different variety : stealth teaching through fanfic / Kristine Larsen -- Writing and rhetoric for a ludic democracy : Youtube, Fandom, and participatory pleasure / Diane Penrod -- World of rhetcraft : rhetorical production and raiding in World of Warcraft / Christopher Paul -- Rekindling rhetoric : oratory and marketplace culture in Guild Wars / Matthew S. S. Johnson -- Virtual guerrillas and world of extras : shooting Machinima in second life / Mark Pepper -- Remix, play and remediation : undertheorized composing practices / Andrea Davis, Suzanne Webb, Dundee Lackey ...[et al.] -- Conf(us)(ess)ions of a videogame role-player / Zach Waggoner -- Novel cartographies, new correspondences / Jentery Sayers. A place to call home : the experience of one guild chat in World of Warcraft / Wendi Jewell -- Magic canvas : digital building blocks / Catherine McDonald -- Encouraging feedback : responding to fan fiction at Different Colored Pens / Juli Parrish -- MetaSpace : Meatspace and blogging intersect / Elizabeth Kleinfeld -- Meeting the digital generation in the classroom : a reflection on the obstacles / Heather Urbanski -- Making Dorothy Parker my MySpace friend : a classroom application for social networks / Ashley Andrews -- Novel cartographies, new correspondences / Jentery Sayers.
Summary:
"This collection explores topics too often overlooked by traditional academic scholarship, though critical to an exploration of rhetoric and popular culture, including fan fiction, reality television, blogging, online role-playing games, and Fantasy Football. Both scholarly and engaging, this text draws rhetorical studies into the digital age"--Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.