soap is more than 20 years old) and frequency (all U.S. To fill this gap, I argue that understanding fan networks today requires looking back to previous methods of fan networking. soap operas are struggling to retain relevance and audience.
Although several scholars have studied soap opera fandom, few have taken an historical approach at understanding the trajectory of soap fandom, a view especially necessary in an era where online social networks are at the center of audience studies and where cornerstone U.S. This study looks at the pre-Internet development of these social networks to show how that trajectory relates to the current online community of soap opera fans. Soap fans, who started on a geographically local scale and built their communities through grassroots efforts, have found a variety of venues to connect with one another over the past several decades. soap operas have formed social networks surrounding their shows, and they did so even before the concept entered the vernacular. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.Praxis Soap operas and the history of fan discussion Sam Ford MIT Convergence Culture Consortium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period.Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
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