by Suzanne Scott
about Suzanne Scott
Suzanne Scott is Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry and co-editor with Melissa A. Click of The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom.
Battlestar Galactica
Abstract: Being a fan of a TV program in the convergence era increasingly means engaging “official” ancillary content such as podcasts and webisodes produced in conjunction with the series itself. Suzanne Scott’s examination of such “textual expansions” of Battlestar Galactica shows how ancillary content enriches fan experience while also channeling participation in ways that best suit the industry’s financial and ideological interests.