Tune In, Log on : Soaps, Fandom, and On-Line Community, Hardcover by Baym, Nancy K., ISBN 0761916482, ISBN-13 9780761916482, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Baym (communications, U. of Kansas) offers an ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. She explores how verbal and nonverbal communication practices create collaborative interpretations and criticism, group humor, interpersonal relationships, group norms, and individual identity. She also shows how the group, dominated by women, has established female styles of communication, thus demonstrating that women can build successful online communities while welcoming male participants. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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