A case study on transmedia reception : Fandom on Facebook and social issues in the brazilian telenovela Passione
The article begins by showing the main concerns, concepts and theories that have characterized Latin American studies on television reception and how the intensity of the transformations in contemporary communication environment requires an adjustment of focus in the present of the "network soc...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:89487 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/89487 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.7238/a.v0iM.1505 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Reception research Television fiction Transmedia reception Online fandom Participatory culture Estudis de recepció Ficció televisiva Comunitats de fans Cultura participativa |
| Sumario: | The article begins by showing the main concerns, concepts and theories that have characterized Latin American studies on television reception and how the intensity of the transformations in contemporary communication environment requires an adjustment of focus in the present of the "network society" and its "media ecology". Hereafter, the article presents two parts that respectively analyze the research of television reception in the challenges of the new media in face of the traditions of these studies, and what is new in the methodology of the reception of new media. To provide of what would be the main methodological challenges, the text presents an empirical example of the new practices of audiences of television fiction, identified through studies generated within the project of OBITEL2, discussing some results of an exploratory research on transmedia reception of fans on Facebook about Passione, the most watched telenovela in Brazil in 2010. |
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