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<p>When the Archive of Our Own (AO3) received a prestigious Hugo Award from the World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin the summer of 2019, this moment represented a recognition by the literary science fiction community of an alternative model of authorship – one which operates outside the publishing world or academia, one where authorship is collective rather than individual, and one where artworks are appropriative and transformative rather than “original.” Using this occasion as my starting point, I will discuss here the ways that the literacies associated with fandom may be understood as illustrative of the new forms of expression that have taken shape in a networked era.</p></abstract>

When the Archive of Our Own (AO3) received a prestigious Hugo Award from the World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin the summer of 2019, this moment represented a recognition by the literary science fiction community of an alternative model of authorship – one which operates outside the publishing world or academia, one where authorship is collective rather than individual, and one where artworks are appropriative and transformative rather than “original.” Using this occasion as my starting point, I will discuss here the ways that the literacies associated with fandom may be understood as illustrative of the new forms of expression that have taken shape in a networked era.

‘Art Happens not in Isolation, But in Community’: The Collective Literacies of Media Fandom

Cultural Science

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When the Archive of Our Own (AO3) received a prestigious Hugo Award from the World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin the summer of 2019, this moment...

‘Art Happens not in Isolation, But in Community’: The Collective Literacies of Media Fandom

Article Category: Research

Data publikacji: 10 gru 2019

Zakres stron: 78 - 88

Otrzymano: 12 lis 2019

Przyjęty: 12 lis 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.125

Słowa kluczowe
fandom, literacy, mentorship, science fiction

© 2019 Henry Jenkins, published by De Gruyter

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

‘Art Happens not in Isolation, But in Community’: The Collective Literacies of Media Fandom

Article Category: Research

Data publikacji: 10 gru 2019

Zakres stron: 78 - 88

Otrzymano: 12 lis 2019

Przyjęty: 12 lis 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.125

Słowa kluczowefandom, literacy, mentorship, science fiction

© 2019 Henry Jenkins, published by De Gruyter

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Słowa kluczowe
fandom, literacy, mentorship, science fiction