The fanfiction reading I found difficult to read at first as I read it as a printed text and thus was not able to read it effectively, however reading it online and using the supporting hyperlinks made it much more understandable as the information which is linked gives the crucial meanings and contexts of much of the language used in the reading. Fanfiction is defined as a work of fiction written by fans for other fans which takes a source text or a famous person as a point of departure.
It seems that the fanfiction reading to me is a kind of remediation of the Vidding videos as they cover many of the same issues but in a different media format.
It again first took an historical look at fanfiction and how it’s a continuation of the remediation of tales and stories that has been pasted down from generations to generations throughout history, and how this has been sued to generate narrative structures used across many different cultures to tell the same story within the context of their particular culture.
Fanfiction I think strives to discuss and understand the original text more deeply and intimately than the average consumer would. I was interested in how sometimes it builds the back-story to some original texts and is something I have experience through wookiepedia where fans have created much information related to the star wars universe. Thus with something of this size a large co-operative community must be built.
As fanfiction often responds to other fanfiction it is here where the participatory nature of this culture becomes clear as people actively engage with one another and learns the customs and language within a culture as they would in the real world. I for instance would have not known what “gen” “het” “femslash” or “slash” fanfiction was before this reading and thus displays to me a specific sub-culture whose rules, language and customs need to be learnt.
LINK: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Fanfiction
It seems that the fanfiction reading to me is a kind of remediation of the Vidding videos as they cover many of the same issues but in a different media format.
It again first took an historical look at fanfiction and how it’s a continuation of the remediation of tales and stories that has been pasted down from generations to generations throughout history, and how this has been sued to generate narrative structures used across many different cultures to tell the same story within the context of their particular culture.
Fanfiction I think strives to discuss and understand the original text more deeply and intimately than the average consumer would. I was interested in how sometimes it builds the back-story to some original texts and is something I have experience through wookiepedia where fans have created much information related to the star wars universe. Thus with something of this size a large co-operative community must be built.
As fanfiction often responds to other fanfiction it is here where the participatory nature of this culture becomes clear as people actively engage with one another and learns the customs and language within a culture as they would in the real world. I for instance would have not known what “gen” “het” “femslash” or “slash” fanfiction was before this reading and thus displays to me a specific sub-culture whose rules, language and customs need to be learnt.
LINK: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Fanfiction