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In the first decade of the XXI century, the Internet has evolved from a textbased to a cross-media platform where corporation distribute mainstream
visual contents. It was also during this time that social media as forums,
blogs, and social network site became popular among youth. From the convergence between old and new media emerged a convergence culture
where mobilized audience compete with corporation in the production of
audiovisual flows of contents and participate in the construction of networked publics that are digital social spaces and imagined communities.
Those socio-technical changes are affecting the way audience communicate
with each other and participate in the construction of new social identity.
The aim of this paper is to describe how the contemporary audience shape
fictional and audiovisual resources that are available in the cross-media
platform. In the networked publics fans of Tv programs appropriate professionally produced contents and pop icons to express their affiliation to a
mainstream global culture participating in the construction of a complex
social network that I propose to call starring system. With this term Id
like to focus on a new dynamic in the networked publics that is the blurring
of celebrity (professional) and fan (amateur). In particular I will describe
how Italian fans of US Tv series combine the use of social media and the
creative remixing of audiovisual contents distributed by US broadcasters to
communicate with each other. This process will be exemplified with a case
study on an online community of fans of US Tv series: ::Italian Subs Addicted::.
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