Sam Ford
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam Ford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Ford |
| SIGNATURE | FORD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
How sharing, linking, and liking have transformed the media and marketing industries Spreadable Media is a rare inside look at today’s ever-changing media landscape. The days of corporate control over media content and its distribution have been replaced by the age of what the digital media industries have called “user-generated content.” Spreadable Media maps these fundamental changes, and gives readers a comprehensive look into the rise of part…
Report for America, Report about Communities: Local News Capacity and Community Trust
This study looks at Report for America’s (RFA) efforts to strengthen the capacity of local news and increase trust from the perspective of two communities: a neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side and a rural county in Eastern Kentucky. Using a communication infrastructure theory framework, we examined RFA’s impact on the local news environment by following 28 residents through two rounds of focus groups, interviewing 15 journalists and RFA staff, a…
“He’s a real man’s man”
This chapter explores both how fields like fan studies and performance studies have brought increasingly complex questions to academic understandings of wrestling audiences and how the activities of wrestling fans provide a continually rich area of exploring negotiations of masculinity within fandom. The film tackles the various ways in which World Wrestling Entertainment in particular presents a very narrow range of acceptable behaviors for its …
Spreadable media: Creating value and meaning in a networked culture
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
Spreadable Media:Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture Online Roundtable on Spreadable Media, by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green, with participants Paul Booth, Kristina Busse, Melissa Click, Sam Ford, Henry Jenkins, Xiaochang Li, and Sharon Ross. Moderated by Lousia Stein, Book Review Editor Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green. New York University P…
Soap operas and the history of fan discussion
For decades, fans of U.S. soap operas have formed social networks surrounding their shows, and they did so even before the concept entered the vernacular. Soap fans, who started on a geographically local scale and built their communities through grassroots efforts, have found a variety of venues to connect with one another over the past several decades. This study looks at the pre-Internet development of these social networks to show how that tra…
Report for America, Report about Communities: Local News Capacity and Community Trust
This study looks at Report for America’s (RFA) efforts to strengthen the capacity of local news and increase trust from the perspective of two communities: a neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side and a rural county in Eastern Kentucky. Using a communication infrastructure theory framework, we examined RFA’s impact on the local news environment by following 28 residents through two rounds of focus groups, interviewing 15 journalists and RFA staff, a…
Soap operas and the history of fan discussion
For decades, fans of U.S. soap operas have formed social networks surrounding their shows, and they did so even before the concept entered the vernacular. Soap fans, who started on a geographically local scale and built their communities through grassroots efforts, have found a variety of venues to connect with one another over the past several decades. This study looks at the pre-Internet development of these social networks to show how that tra…
Soap operas and the history of fan discussion
For decades, fans of U.S. soap operas have formed social networks surrounding their shows, and they did so even before the concept entered the vernacular. Soap fans, who started on a geographically local scale and built their communities through grassroots efforts, have found a variety of venues to connect with one another over the past several decades. This study looks at the pre-Internet development of these social networks to show how that tra…
Spreadable media: Creating value and meaning in a networked culture
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
Spreadable Media:Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture Online Roundtable on Spreadable Media, by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green, with participants Paul Booth, Kristina Busse, Melissa Click, Sam Ford, Henry Jenkins, Xiaochang Li, and Sharon Ross. Moderated by Lousia Stein, Book Review Editor Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture by Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green. New York University P…
“He’s a real man’s man”
This chapter explores both how fields like fan studies and performance studies have brought increasingly complex questions to academic understandings of wrestling audiences and how the activities of wrestling fans provide a continually rich area of exploring negotiations of masculinity within fandom. The film tackles the various ways in which World Wrestling Entertainment in particular presents a very narrow range of acceptable behaviors for its …
Report for America, Report about Communities: Local News Capacity and Community Trust
This study looks at Report for America’s (RFA) efforts to strengthen the capacity of local news and increase trust from the perspective of two communities: a neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side and a rural county in Eastern Kentucky. Using a communication infrastructure theory framework, we examined RFA’s impact on the local news environment by following 28 residents through two rounds of focus groups, interviewing 15 journalists and RFA staff, a…
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
How sharing, linking, and liking have transformed the media and marketing industries Spreadable Media is a rare inside look at today’s ever-changing media landscape. The days of corporate control over media content and its distribution have been replaced by the age of what the digital media industries have called “user-generated content.” Spreadable Media maps these fundamental changes, and gives readers a comprehensive look into the rise of part…
Computer Science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Digital Games and Media (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Advertising (2 works)