Analyzing the Contributions of Reviewers to Online Fan Fiction Writing

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Abstract

Young writers have used the internet to build networks of fanfiction reading, writing, and editing — literacy practices that are highly valued in schools, higher education, and careers. Even while affinity space research shows that online spaces see multiple kinds of participation as legitimate, however, much of this work focuses on the extensive contributions of exceptional young authors. In this paper, we foreground the contributions of fanfiction readers and reviewers, exploring their communicative literacy practices and hypothesizing about how we can make their reading and writing more visible and better consider their learning practices. To do so, we experiment with a linguistic analysis of fanfiction review comments on two sites, Fanfiction.net and Figment.com.

Authors

• Alecia Marie Magnifico, University of New Hampshire

• Jayne C. Lammers, University of Rochester

• Jen Scott Curwood, The University of Sydney