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LEGOfied - Building Blocks as Media (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,830
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LEGOfied - Building Blocks as Media (Hardcover): Nicholas Taylor, Chris Ingraham

LEGOfied - Building Blocks as Media (Hardcover)

Nicholas Taylor, Chris Ingraham

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LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media provides a multi-faceted exploration of LEGO fandom, addressing a blindspot in current accounts of LEGO and an emerging area of interest to media scholars: namely, the role of hobbyist enthusiasts and content producers in LEGO's emergence as a ubiquitous transmedia franchise. This book examines a range of LEGO hobbyism and their attendant forms of mediated self-expression and identity (their "technicities"): artists, aspiring Master Builders, collectors, and entrepreneurs who refashion LEGO bricks into new commodities (sets, tchotchkes, and minifigures). The practices and perspectives that constitute this diverse scene lie at the intersection of multiple transformations in contemporary culture, including the shifting relationships between culture industries and the audiences that form their most ardent consumer base, but also the emerging forms of entrepreneurialism, professionalization, and globalization that characterize the burgeoning DIY movement. What makes this a compelling project for media scholars is its mutli-dimensional articulation of how LEGO functions not just as a toy, cultural icon, or as transmedia franchise, but as a media platform. LEGOfied is centered around their shared experiences, qualitative observations, and semi-structured interviews at a number of LEGO hobbyist conventions. Working outwards from these conventions, each chapter engages additional modes of inquiry-media archaeology, aesthetics, posthumanist philosophy, feminist media studies, and science and technology studies-to explore the origins, permutations and implications of different aspects of the contemporary LEGO fandom scene.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2020
Editors: Nicholas Taylor • Chris Ingraham
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-5404-5
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Multimedia
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Optimization > Game theory
LSN: 1-5013-5404-3
Barcode: 9781501354045

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