“Don’t tell me what I can’t do!”: as práticas de consumo e participação dos fãs de Lost

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Bandeira, Ana Paula
• Orientador(a): Escosteguy, Ana Carolina Damboriarena
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: COMUNICAÇÃO DE MASSA; TELEVISÃO - SERIADOS; PROGRAMAS DE TELEVISÃO - CRÍTICA E INTERPRETAÇÃO; CONSUMO
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/2152

This research seeks to describe and analyze the current consumption and participation practices of Lost TV show fans. Since their interactions occur on the internet, the empiric study uses virtual ethnography (Hine, 2000; Markham, 2004) as methodology and participative observation as technique, taking as sample the LostBrasil online discussion group. It investigates consuming practices such as episodes download, fan-made subtitles, critics and speculation, taking the works of Henry Jenkins (1992, 2006a), Matt Hills (2002) and Will Brooker (2004, 2008), among others, as the theoretical main line. Secondarily, it also seeks to identify the show’s production efforts that try to keep the fans involved with it and the importance of transmedia storytelling, according to Jenkins (2006a), in this context. Among the results, it was seen that the fan’s relation to information characterized as spoiler is essencial to the experience of watching the series, that episodes downloading becomes required to participate and keep up with the discussion board threads and that the message exchange between fans is specially marked by the occurrence of interpretation, criticism and speculation.