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dc.contributor.authorLeaver, Tama
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:48:54Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:48:54Z
dc.date.created2013-04-30T20:00:24Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationLeaver, Tama. 2013. Joss Whedon, Dr. Horrible, and the Future of Web Media. Popular communication. 11 (2): pp. 160-173.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15253
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/15405702.2013.779510
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In the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike, one of the areas in dispute was the question of residual payments for online material. On the picket line, Buffy creator Joss Whedon discussed new ways online media production could be financed. After the strike, Whedon self-funded a web media production, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Whedon and his collaborators positioned Dr. Horrible as an experiment, investigating whether original online media content created outside of studio funding could be financially viable. Dr. Horrible was a bigger hit than expected, with a paid version topping the iTunes charts and a DVD release hitting the number two position on Amazon. This article explores which factors most obviously contributed to Dr. Horrible's success, whether these factors are replicable by other media creators, the incorporation of fan labor into web media projects, and how web-specific content creation relates to more traditional forms of media production.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.subjectOnline Distribution
dc.subjectFans
dc.subjectSocial Media
dc.subjectDr Horrible
dc.subjectParatexts
dc.subjectJoss Whedon
dc.subjectLabor
dc.subjectWeb Media
dc.titleJoss Whedon, Dr. Horrible, and the Future of Web Media
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume11
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage160
dcterms.source.endPage173
dcterms.source.issn1540-5702
dcterms.source.titlePopular communication
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This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 2013, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15405702.2013.779510">http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15405702.2013.779510</a>

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