Media Marathoning Immersions in Morality [Hardcover]

In an era of binge-watching and streaming media, Lisa Glebatis Perkss excellent Media Marathoning: Immersions in Morality will undoubtedly become a staple read. Through empirical audience data and textual analysis, Perks uncovers the moral lessons inscribed in our most popular texts. Whether you media marathon yourself or know someone lost for weeks in their own marathon session, this eminently readable volume will help you understand the people who love to binge and the texts they love to binge on. You may just find yourself, like the marathoners described in this book, unable to stop&Perks Media Marathoning represents a much needed analysis?of an increasingly popular and significant way we engage with popular media texts?today. That we now increasingly use marathoning as a means to connect with our favorite movies, TV shows, books, and games whilst also sharing that experience with friends and family in a social setting represents a dramatic shift in how we understand the media and our relationship with it. Perks uniquely discusses this relationship and presents a thoroughly researched and fascinating book that fills a gap in current scholarship on media audiences, morality,?and the evolving practices of media consumption.Media Marathoning analyzes readers focused engagement with story worlds. Drawing from qualitative studies of marathoners and textual analysis of commonly marathoned stories, this book presents a holistic look at the rewards, costs, and values that course through many marathoners experiences to chart the cultural implications of media marathoning.Media Marathoning: Immersions in Morality is a scholarly study of the intense relationship between reader and story world, analyzing the way audiences become absorbed in a fictive text and dedicate many hours to exploring its narrative contours. Rather than view these media experiences as mindless indulgences, media marathoning connotes a conjoined triumph of commitment and stamina. Compared to molcá