The L Word em movimento: convergências de uma série lésbica

Abstract

From the mapping of connections between new media, TV series, and on the Internet collaborative interactions lesbianidades, this dissertation interrogates the intersections between media that can occur through a case study of audiences around the series The L Word. Considered the first dramatic series of American television to present a group of lesbian women as protagonists of his narrative, The L Word can be seen as an example of cultural product transmidiático produced for TV, but it established a special relationship with their spectators in what Henry Jenkins calls Convergence Culture. From this study, we intend to question both the specifics of this relationship set in the convergence of media, as the particular characteristics of the behavior of the fans inside the Brazilian participatory culture, collective intelligence powered by the movement created from the show. The search for answers to these questions serves, throughout the text, to verify the hypothesis that The L Word, as transmedia, establishes a dialogue with their fans in the environment of media convergence, while the characters series of guided attempt traits of lesbianidades in transit, the narrative fits guidelines demanded by viewers who seek visibility in a stream that led the Brazilian fans to be involved in both the sharing of content of the series, as the social networks created lesbians from it, move that causes social, cultural and political.