Writers in the Secret Garden Aragon Cecilia University of Washington
Writers in the Secret Garden Aragon Cecilia University of Washington An in-depth examination of the novel ways young people support and learn from each other though participation in online fanfiction…
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Writers in the Secret Garden Aragon Cecilia University of Washington
An in-depth examination of the novel ways young people support and learn from each other though participation in online fanfiction communities.Over the past twenty years, amateur fanfiction writers have published an astonishing amount of fiction in online repositories. In this book, Cecilia Aragon and Katie Davis provide an in-depth examination of fanfiction writers and fanfiction repositories, finding that these sites are not shallow agglomerations and regurgitations of pop culture but rather online spaces for sophisticated and informal learning. More than 1.5 million enthusiastic fanfiction writers--primarily young people in their teens and twenties--have contributed nearly seven million stories and more than 176 million reviews to a single online site, Fanfiction.net.
Through their participation in online fanfiction communities, young people find ways to support and learn