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Article: Fan fiction online: engagement, critical response and affective play through writing.
- Article from:
- Australian Journal of Language and Literacy
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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Introduction: Understanding fan fiction
The origins of fan fiction can be traced back to the 1930s pulp magazine Fanzines, and it enjoyed a surge in the late 1960s with the popularity of Star Trek (Jenkins, 1992). Since then, according to Black (2004), it is 'an element of popular culture that is ever growing in popularity as new technologies enable native and non-native speaking fans from all over the globe to meet online to share, critique, and build upon each other's fictions' (Black, 2004, p. 1). Borrowing settings, plots, characters and ideas from all forms of media and popular culture, fans weave together new tales, sometimes within the accepted canon (the ...