Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet

Mary Kirby-Diaz is a professor of sociology at Farmingdale State College in New York, with a study specialty in family, pedagogy and community mediation. A Buffy fan, she began researching the show’s popular culture in 2003.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Introduction      PART 1—FANDOMS AS COMMUNITIESI’ve Got a Little List, or, “You Guys Wanna Team Up and Take Over SunnydaleU?” ELIZABETH L. RAMBO      Buffy, Angel, and the Creation of Virtual CommunitiesMARY KIRBY-DIAZ      PART 2—SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FANDOMSRL on LJ: Fandom and the Presentation of Self in Online LifeREBECCA BLEY      So, What’s the Story? Story-Oriented and Series-Oriented Fans: A Complex of Behaviors MARY KIRBY-DIAZ      PART 3—THE BRONZE AGE: 1997–2001“In the World, But Not of It”: An Ethnographic Analysis of an Online Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fan CommunityASIM ALI      Community, Language, and Postmodernism at the Mouth of HellASIM ALI      PART 4—PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITIES AND THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURE“Fake It Till You Make It”: Understanding Media Addiction and Buffy the Vampire SlayerDAVID KOCIEMBA      The Problematic Definition of “Fan”: A Survey of Fannish Involvement in the Buffyverse CLAUDIA REBAZA      “Easy to Associate Angsty Lyrics with Buffy”: An Introduction to a Participatory Fan Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vidders, Popular Music and the InternetKATHRYN HILL      Glossary      Selected Bibliography      About the Contributors      Index

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