Skip to main content
Taylor & Francis Group Logo
Advanced Search

Click here to search books using title name,author name and keywords.

  • Login
  • Hi, User  
    • Your Account
    • Logout
Advanced Search

Click here to search books using title name,author name and keywords.

Breadcrumbs Section. Click here to navigate to respective pages.

Chapter

Fannish affect, “quality” fandom, and transmedia storytelling campaigns

Chapter

Fannish affect, “quality” fandom, and transmedia storytelling campaigns

DOI link for Fannish affect, “quality” fandom, and transmedia storytelling campaigns

Fannish affect, “quality” fandom, and transmedia storytelling campaigns book

Fannish affect, “quality” fandom, and transmedia storytelling campaigns

DOI link for Fannish affect, “quality” fandom, and transmedia storytelling campaigns

Fannish affect, “quality” fandom, and transmedia storytelling campaigns book

ByMelanie E. S. Kohnen
BookThe Routledge Companion to Media Fandom

Click here to navigate to parent product.

Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
Imprint Routledge
Pages 10
eBook ISBN 9781315637518

ABSTRACT

This chapter examines officially produced transmedia campaigns for television (TV) series and blockbuster franchises, and the way these campaigns address and invite fans to participate. The campaign reached out to fans, invited new viewers, and most of all, and aimed to convince HBO subscribers that a fantasy series fit into the channel's "quality TV" brand. The chapter argues that masculinized affect is thus embraced as "quality fandom" that is desirable to the industry, and feminized affect is rejected or simply ignored in transmedia storytelling. This contradictory process is part of a broader pattern of legitimation that characterizes media and audiences in the convergence era. Transmedia projects thus exist on a spectrum between multi-platform storytelling and promotion. Crucially, transmedia success depends on fans' emotional investment in a text. Even the most cursory engagement with transmedia requires enough interest to click on a link to an online puzzle or a tie-in video.

T&F logoTaylor & Francis Group logo
  • Policies
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Cookie Policy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Cookie Policy
  • Journals
    • Taylor & Francis Online
    • CogentOA
    • Taylor & Francis Online
    • CogentOA
  • Corporate
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
  • Help & Contact
    • Students/Researchers
    • Librarians/Institutions
    • Students/Researchers
    • Librarians/Institutions
  • Connect with us

Connect with us

Registered in England & Wales No. 3099067
5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG © 2021 Informa UK Limited