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found when he joined the online community was that he was no longer simply creating animations or games; he was part of a larger conversation.

Gossip’s power as a “feminine discourse” lies in its ability to make the abstract concrete, to transform issues of public concern into topics of personal significance.

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that fans see the fictional characters and their actions as simultaneously “real” and “

blurred generic boundaries of network programing.

effective preservation must rest in large measure on the cultivation of new social practices to attend our new media. These

Fannish reading will be understood in this book as a process, a movement from the initial

most fans would have access to more than one interpretive framework for positioning these specific images.

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