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Baym, N. K. (2018) Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection. New York University Press. Read the introduction posted here or the chapter about how fans created online culture reprinted in full in WIRED. Listen to the soundtrack of musicians …

Fans, Audiences, Artists and Industries Baym, N. K., Cavicchi, D., & Coates, N. (2017) Music Fandom in the Digital Age: A Conversation. Music Fandom in the Digital Age: A Conversation. In Click M. & Scott, S. (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom. (link is to …

Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture talk at MIT, April 2018 (audio) The Relational Labor of Connecting With Audiences Elihu Katz Colloquium, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, April 2015. (this is a video) Connect with your audience! The …