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Further Publishing from Spreadable Media Authors
Spreadable Media’s co-authors continue to do work drawing on ideas from the book. See these recent publications:
- In his 2014 piece for The Journal of Fandom Studies, “Fan Studies: Grappling with an ‘Undisciplined’ Discipline,” co-author Sam Ford draws on Spreadable Media’s description of “accretion texts,” the increased interest from marketers and the media industries on fans, and the book’s argument that the audience’s increased ability “to share, discuss, debate, and critique texts” today “constitutes the greatest shift in the media ecology in a digital age.” Ford also references the ways in which the 2007 “Gender and Fan Studies” series impacted the Spreadable Media project.
- In his 2014 piece for Cultural Studies, “Rethinking ‘Rethinking Convergence/Culture’,” co-author Henry Jenkins writes extensively about what informed and shaped the Spreadable Media project in the aftermath of his previous book, Convergence Culture.
- NYU Press’ new book Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment Industries, edited by Derek Johnson, Derek Kompare, and Avi Santo, includes an essay from co-author Sam Ford, entitled “Listening and Empathizing: Advocating for New Management Logics in Marketing and Corporate Communications.” (See an earlier version posted for the MIT Media in Transition 8 conference.) In the essay, Ford draws on Spreadable Media to talk about infrastructural tensions within organizations around who “owns” the customer relationship.
- The University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism ran an excerpt from Spreadable Media in their Winter 2013 Agenda magazine.
- In late 2013, Spanish-language journal Panorama Social ran Ford’s “Diferencias entre Oír y Escuchar al Público en la Comunicación Corporativa,” which draws on Spreadable Media’s distinction between “hearing” and “listening” to further explore the concept in corporate communication/public relations/marketing.
- Harvard Business Review recently re-ran Ford’s 2013 piece, “In Marketing, People Are Not Numbers”—drawing on concepts from Spreadable Media—in Russian.