The Ballad of the Internet Nutball: Chaining Rhetorical Visions from the Margins of the Margins to the Mainstream in the Xenaverse
| Academic Commentary | |
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| Title: | The Ballad of the Internet Nutball: Chaining Rhetorical Visions from the Margins of the Margins to the Mainstream in the Xenaverse |
| Commentator: | Christine Boese |
| Date(s): | August 1998 |
| Medium: | online, print |
| Fandom: | Xena: Warrior Princess |
| External Links: | The Ballad of the Internet Nutball: The Xenaverse in Cyberspace |
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The Ballad of the Internet Nutball: Chaining Rhetorical Visions from the Margins of the Margins to the Mainstream in the Xenaverse is a doctoral dissertation by Christine Boese.
The dissertation was accepted at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in August 1998.
It was cited in Jae's essay Young, Female, Single…? A Study of Demographics and Writing-/Reading-Habits of Fanfiction Writers and Readers.
The author cites her thesis in Spinning Off From The Source: Alternative Fan Fiction Changes With The Seasons.
Introduction
"This dissertation is a hypertextual performance in nonlinear form. It is both expressive and paradigmatic, descriptive and analytical, as it seeks the cultural logic of an electronically-linked society in cyberspace: The Xenaverse. As such it exists on the Web and on CD-ROM. This presentation consists of webbed nodes of hypertext rather than chapters, both reflecting and contributing to the webbed electronic environment in which the Xenaverse exists." [1]