Culture and Community Online How Fanfiction Creates a Sense of Social Identity by Reshaping Popular Media

dc.contributor.authorGuinan, Kellye
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-04T16:54:58Z
dc.date.available2017-05-04T16:54:58Z
dc.date.issued2017-05
dc.description.abstractThe internet contains an ever-expanding space where people interact, forming groups and developing customs which, to an outside observer, may seem strange. This project focuses on the motivations behind writing fanfiction and the communities of fans who reinterpret popular media plots and characters—here considered a form of modern folklore—in order to make it more appealing to female and queer identities. The chapters focus on individual issues, such as the nuances of digital ethnography and a brief ethnographic survey which places respondent answers within the larger context of scholarship on online activities, and form as a basis through which further research on fanfiction and its creators/consumers may be conducted.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/handle/mtsu/5251
dc.publisherUniversity Honors College, Middle Tennesee State Universityen_US
dc.subjectdigital anthropologyen_US
dc.subjectfanfictionen_US
dc.subjectsurveyen_US
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.subjectviolenceen_US
dc.subjectcyberspaceen_US
dc.subjectmediaen_US
dc.titleCulture and Community Online How Fanfiction Creates a Sense of Social Identity by Reshaping Popular Mediaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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