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New Media: Same Stories? An Exploratory Look into Fans’ Re-Imaginings of The Doctor (Doctor Who) and Castiel (Supernatural)

Acevedo- Callejas, Liliana Patricia
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0118-6380
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1578564531069698

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Mass Communication (Communication).
The social make-up of countries like the US and the UK is increasingly diverse. Furthermore, media texts from both countries are growing in popularity with international audiences. Still, mediated portrayals from both countries continue to privilege one social group, i.e. white males, while neglecting to represent females and ethnic minorities in deep and meaningful ways. In turn, technological developments in the past couple of decades enabled the re-appropriation and re-imagining of commercial media texts in previously unimaginable ways. Scholars like Henry Jenkins have argued that these practices have enhanced audiences’ enjoyment of media texts but also, in the case of ongoing texts, their participation in creative decisions in the production of the originals. Similarly, some have claimed that re-imagining media texts provides members of underrepresented social groups to insert their identities into the popular texts they enjoy. This dissertation explores how fans re-imagine two popular television characters: The Doctor (Doctor Who, UK) and Castiel (Supernatural, US).
Joseph Slade (Advisor)
Jenny Nelson (Committee Member)
Yea-Wen Chen (Committee Member)
Patty Stokes (Committee Member)
163 p.
Communication; Gender; Gender Studies
Fanfiction; Fanworks; Diversity; Doctor Who; Supernatural; Creative exploration; Articulation theory

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  • Acevedo- Callejas, L. P. (2020). New Media: Same Stories? An Exploratory Look into Fans’ Re-Imaginings of The Doctor (Doctor Who) and Castiel (Supernatural) [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1578564531069698

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Acevedo- Callejas, Liliana . New Media: Same Stories? An Exploratory Look into Fans’ Re-Imaginings of The Doctor (Doctor Who) and Castiel (Supernatural). 2020. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1578564531069698.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Acevedo- Callejas, Liliana . "New Media: Same Stories? An Exploratory Look into Fans’ Re-Imaginings of The Doctor (Doctor Who) and Castiel (Supernatural)." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1578564531069698

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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