News: Female Fandoms Online: due South

[r-vecchio.livejournal.com]

A book (published April 2005) which includes discussion about due South - specifically RayK/Fraser. I've never come across it before now so I apologise if this sort of post has been made before!

Title: Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online
Author: Rhiannon Bury
Brief Synopsis: Bury examines two internet fandoms—the David Duchovny Estrogen Brigade and fans of Ray Kowalski (and his relationship with Benton Fraser) from Due South—with special emphasis on community and communication (and the inevitable fandom fallouts) online.

Amazon.com describes it as:

"Cyberspaces of Their Own interrogates the social and spatial relations of the rapidly expanding virtual terrain of media fandom. For the first time, issues of identity, community and space are brought together in this in-depth ethnographic study of two female internet communities. Members are fans of the American television series The X- Files and the Canadian series Due South. Forging links between media, cultural and internet studies, this book examines negotiations of gender, class, sexuality and nationality in making meaning out of a television show, producing fiction based on television characters, creating and maintaining online communal relations, and organizing cyberspace in a way that marks it out as alternative to that which surrounds it."

Looks pretty snazzy so I thought I'd point you all in its direction too. Hope that's okay!

Comments

[willows-mom.livejournal.com]

Ooh this is interesting. I actually did an assignment examining a very similar thing when I was studying Anthropological Linguistics. We had to examine the communication of a culture, and I chose the internet. My case study was on Stargate, not Due South, but it's a fascinating subject and I've put this book on my Wish List.
Thanks

[r-vecchio.livejournal.com]

Ooh cool, glad my idle amazon searching paid off for someone!

[brigantine.livejournal.com]

Wow! And here I thought we were just writing porn... ;)

[r-vecchio.livejournal.com]

XD

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

Yup, and some of "us" are quoted in there. I have a copy of this book, BTW. I like it.

It's far from the first such book. Henry Jenkins' Textual Poachers and Camille Bacon-Smith's Enterprising Women were the first such books I knew about (both predate the airing of DS), but there have been many since.

[r-vecchio.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'd never even thought these kinda books existed, let alone spoke about DS in them.

[j-s-cavalcante.livejournal.com]

I know! Freaked me out, let me tell you, when academics started writing about fandom and publishing their work to the general public. Back then, slash fandom (and zine fandom in general, to some extent) was still pretty much underground, and we wanted to keep it that way. That was before wide use of the Internet.

[mindyfromohio.livejournal.com]

I read that book at the recommendation of a professor-friend, and that's what got me curious about DS. So I got to be all nostalgic about XF-fandom and then found a new one!

[r-vecchio.livejournal.com]

Haha, that's a new way to get into due South!