Television, Social Media, and Fan Cultureexamines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as well as how television uses social media to engage fan cultures. The contributors review the history and impact of social media and television programming; analyze specific programs and the impact of related social media interactions; and scrutinize the past fan culture to anticipate how social media programming will develop in the future. The contributors explore a diverse array of television personalities, shows, media outlets, and fan activities in their analysis, including: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Paula Deen;Community,Game of Thrones,Duck Dynasty,Toddlers and Tiaras,Talking Dead,Breaking Bad,Firefly,Buffy the Vampire Slayer,Army Wives,The Newsroom,Doctor Who,Twin Peaks, andThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.; as well as ESPNs TrueHoop Network and YahoosBall Dont Lie; and cosplay.

Alison F. Slade is adjunct at Faulkner State Community College.

Dedria Givens-Carroll is associate professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Amber J. Narro is associate professor of communication at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Chapter 1: The New Network: How Social Media is Changingand SavingTelevision
Ryan Cassella

Chapter 2: Spoiler Alert: Understanding Television Enjoyment in the Social Media Era
Benjamin Brojakowski

Chapter 3: Rhetorical Strengths& Limitations of Interactivity for Activism in the Stewart and Colbert Universe
Christopher A. Medjesky
Chapter 4: Fandom Communication in a Mediated Age: The Use of Twitter and Blogs for Dissent Practices Among National Basketball Association (NBA) Fans
Corey Jay Liberman, Michael Plugh and Brian Geltzeiler
Chapter 5: What Types of #SportsFans use Social Media? The Role of Team Identity Formation and Spectatorship Motivation on Self-Disclosure during a Live Sport Broadcast
Shaughan A. Keaton, Nicholas M. Watanabe& Brody J. Ruihley

Chapter 6: The Online Community: Fan response ofCommunitys Unlikely Fifth Season
Matthew Collins and Danielle M. Stern
Chapter 7: Game(s) of Fandom: The Hyperlink Labyrinths that ParatextualizeGame of ThronesFandom
Garret Castleberry
Chapter 8:Be Original: Examining Fan Comments on A&EsDuck Dynasty Facebook Page After the Robertson Suspension
Michel M. Haigh
Chapter 9: The Parents Have the Dream, but the Kids are in the Nightmare: Digital Interactivity,Toddlers& TiarasViewers, and Social Networking Sites
Leandra H. Hernandez
Chapter 10:Zombie Fans, Second Screen, and Television Audiences: Redefining Parasociality as Technoprosociality in AMCs #TalkingDead
Sabrina Pasztor and Jenny Ungbha Korn
Chapter 11: Memes, Tweets, and Props: How Fans Cope When Shows Go Off the Air
Alane Presswood and Steve Granelli
Chapter 12: So Are the Days of Our Tweets: An Examination of Twitter Use By American Daytime Serials and Their Fans
Marsha Ducey
Chapter 13:Army Wives Connect: Lifetime Viewers Everyday Lives and Fandom Converge in Online Communities
Darcey Morris
Chapter 14:Butter, Facebook, and Paula Deen: Examining Fans Use of Social Media in Crisis
Michel M. Haigh& Shelley Wigley
Chapter 15: Fans Can Be Journalists Too: A Look at Fan Interaction with HBOs The Newsroom
Julia E. Largent& Jason Roy Burnett
Chapter 16:It's Bigger on the Inside: Fandom, Social Media, andDoctor Who
Krystal Fogle
Chapter 17: Television-inspired Cosplay and Social Media
Laura Kane and William E. Loges
Chapter 18: Who Killed @TheLauraPalmer? Twitter as a Performance Space forTwin Peaks Fan Fiction
Kathryn L. Lookadoo and Ted M. Dickinson
Chapter 19: Fifty Years of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: How the Ever-Changing Media Sustained and Shaped One of the Oldest Fan Communities
Cynthia W. Walker
Chapter 20: Managing Multiscreen

Daniel Faltesek