Spoiler definitions and behaviors in the post-network era

被引:7
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作者
Perks, Lisa G. [1 ]
McElrath-Hart, Noelle [2 ]
机构
[1] Merrimack Coll, Commun Arts & Sci, N Andover, MA 01845 USA
[2] Strong Natl Museum Play, Rochester, NY USA
关键词
Active audiences; narrative pleasures; post-network; spoilers; time shifting; GOODBYE;
D O I
10.1177/1354856516659403
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
Analysis of survey responses gathered from 92 television time shifters reveals varying attitudes and behaviors toward spoilers. Throughout this essay, we argue that spoiler avoiders embrace post-network era reception practices but use network era norms to evaluate their own experience and regulate the television conversations around them. We see, however, an erosion of those network era norms in people who either use spoilers to enhance their narrative pleasure or who do not actively police television conversations around them. These findings suggest that television conversation norms and individual evaluations of narrative pleasures are slower to evolve than reception patterns. Our study brings convergence culture questions of narrative pleasure, discursive patterns, active audience behaviors, and contested grounds of power to the surface.
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页码:137 / 151
页数:15
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