Jonathan Gray (1)

Author of Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World

For other authors named Jonathan Gray, see the disambiguation page.

About the Author

Jonathan Gray is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Television Entertainment and Watching with The Simpsons and co-editor of Satire TV and Fandom (both available from NYU Press).

Works by Jonathan Gray

Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (2010) 34 copies

Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era (2009) 31 copies

Television Studies (2011) 20 copies

Watching With The Simpsons: Television, Parody, And Intertextuality (2005) 15 copies

Fandom, Second Edition: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World (2017) 15 copies, 1 review

A Companion to Media Authorship (2013) 6 copies

Television Entertainment (2008) 1 copy

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The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions) (2017) — Contributor — 13 copies

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Gender: male
Education: University of British Columbia (BA) (1996)
University of Leeds (MA) (1997)
Goldsmiths College, University of London (MA) (2000)
Goldsmiths College, University of London (PhD) (2003)
Occupations: professor of Media and Cultural Studies
Organizations: University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Fandom, Second Edition: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World by Jonathan Gray

This book and others I learned about from it* deepened my ideas about fandom.

I approached this field wanting to understand how people could be so ravenously into what I viewed as capitalist spectacles that brainwash us into adopting consumer culture.

I still agree with that sentiment about two-thirds as strongly as I did before, while also getting that it's more complicated.

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Jun 7, 2021