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

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 publishin...

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Published inCultural science Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 78 - 88
Main Author Jenkins, Henry
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Sciendo 10.12.2019
Subjects
fandom
literacy
mentorship
science fiction
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1836-0416
1836-0416
DOI:10.5334/csci.125