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Author Tiffany, Kaitlyn, 1993- author.

Title Everything I need I get from you : how fangirls created the Internet as we know it / Kaitlyn Tiffany.

Publication Info. New York : MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  004.678 TIF    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 304 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-302).
Contents Introduction -- Screaming -- Deep-Frying -- Shrines -- Trending -- Trash -- Promo -- Secrets -- Proof -- Belonging -- Power -- Conclusion: 1Dead.
Summary "In 2014, on the side of a Los Angeles freeway, a One Direction fan erected a shrine in the spot where, a few hours earlier, Harry Styles had vomited. "It's interesting for sure," Styles said later, adding, "a little niche, maybe." But what seemed niche to Styles was actually a signpost for an unfathomably large, hyper-connected alternate universe: stan culture. In Everything I Need I Get from You, Kaitlyn Tiffany, a staff writer at The Atlantic and a superfan herself, guides us through the online world of fans, stans, and boybands. Along the way we meet girls who damage their lungs from screaming too loud, fans rallying together to manipulate chart numbers using complex digital subversion, and an underworld of inside jokes and shared memories surrounding band members' allergies, internet typos, and hairstyles. In the process, Tiffany makes a convincing, and often moving, argument that fangirls, in their ingenuity and collaboration, created the social internet we know today. "Before most people were using the internet for anything," Tiffany writes, "fans were using it for everything." With humor, empathy, and an insider's eye, Everything I Need I Get from You reclaims internet history for young women, establishing fandom not as the territory of hysterical girls but as an incubator for digital innovation, art, and community. From alarming, fandom-splitting conspiracy theories about secret love and fake children, to the interplays between high and low culture and capitalism, Tiffany's book is a riotous chronicle of the movement that changed the internet forever."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Internet and women.
Internet -- Social aspects.
Fans (Persons)
Mass media and women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Fans (Persons) (OCoLC)fst00920677
Internet and women. (OCoLC)fst00977230
Internet -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01766793
Mass media and women. (OCoLC)fst01011380
ISBN 9780374539184 (paperback)
0374539189 (paperback)
Standard No. 40031235931
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