by Abigail De Kosnik
about Abigail De Kosnik
Abigail De Kosnik is Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) and the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and is the Director of BCNM. She is the author of Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom and co-editor with Keith Feldman of #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation. She has published articles on media fandom, popular digital culture, and performance studies in Cinema Journal, The International Journal of Communication, Modern Drama, Transformative Works and Cultures, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Performance Research, and elsewhere. De Kosnik is Filipina American.
One Life to Live
Abstract: Few genres are as associated with the television medium as the soap opera, which has populated daytime schedules for decades, often with the same shows running for more than the lifetimes of their characters. Abigail De Kosnik provides a long-term view of One Life to Live and the lifelong story of one character to highlight the unique narrative possibilities of soap operas and call attention to what might be lost if the genre continues to disappear from television.