Television Fans and the Age of the World Wide Web
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Many things have changed as a result of easy access to the net. You don’t have to run out in a blizzard to send a nifty present to your Uncle in the back woods of Maine. Instead you can browse through a zillion stores, make the purchase online and have it to him as soon as the next day if you are willing to pay a little extra for shipping. The internet has something for everyone and provides a way of sharing information and thoughts with an unbelievable amount of people almost instantaneously. It has given people who watch television a way to turn a one way medium into an interactive community. Televison fans find their way to sites that worship the show or individual characters and actors from the series. Eventually they reach forums that discuss every aspect of the show as well as the cast, characters, writing staff, directors and producers. This is the breeding ground for fan movements that existed in the pre internet world but now reach numbers that could only have been dreamed about in the past.
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