Fan (Fiction) Acting on Media and the Politics of Appropriation
Fanfiction is the creative appropriation and transformation of existing popular media texts by fans who take stories, worlds and/or characters as starting points and create their own stories based on them. As a cultural field of practice, fanfiction questions prevalent concepts of individual authors...
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| author | Wolfgang Reißmann Moritz Stock Svenja Kaiser Vanessa Isenberg Jörg-Uwe Nieland |
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| description | Fanfiction is the creative appropriation and transformation of existing popular media texts by fans who take stories, worlds and/or characters as starting points and create their own stories based on them. As a cultural field of practice, fanfiction questions prevalent concepts of individual authorship and proprietary of cultural goods. At the same time, fanfiction itself is challenged. Through processes of mediatization, fanfiction grew and became increasingly visible. Third parties, ranging from the media industry (e.g., film studios) and copyright holders to journalism and academia, are interested in fanfiction and are following its development. We regard fanfiction communities and fan acting as fields for experimentation and as discursive arenas which can help understand what appropriating, writing and publishing in a digital culture and the future of writing might look like. In this paper, we outline important debates on the legitimacy and nature of fanfiction and present preliminary results of current research within Germany. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c1855962123d45418e1746ee0d28c92f2022-12-22T02:07:04ZengCogitatioMedia and Communication2183-24392017-09-0153152710.17645/mac.v5i3.990540Fan (Fiction) Acting on Media and the Politics of AppropriationWolfgang Reißmann0Moritz Stock1Svenja Kaiser2Vanessa Isenberg3Jörg-Uwe Nieland4Collaborative Research Center “Media of Cooperation”, University of Siegen, GermanyCollaborative Research Center “Media of Cooperation”, University of Siegen, GermanyCollaborative Research Center “Media of Cooperation”, University of Siegen, GermanyCollaborative Research Center “Media of Cooperation”, University of Siegen, GermanyCollaborative Research Center “Media of Cooperation”, University of Siegen, GermanyFanfiction is the creative appropriation and transformation of existing popular media texts by fans who take stories, worlds and/or characters as starting points and create their own stories based on them. As a cultural field of practice, fanfiction questions prevalent concepts of individual authorship and proprietary of cultural goods. At the same time, fanfiction itself is challenged. Through processes of mediatization, fanfiction grew and became increasingly visible. Third parties, ranging from the media industry (e.g., film studios) and copyright holders to journalism and academia, are interested in fanfiction and are following its development. We regard fanfiction communities and fan acting as fields for experimentation and as discursive arenas which can help understand what appropriating, writing and publishing in a digital culture and the future of writing might look like. In this paper, we outline important debates on the legitimacy and nature of fanfiction and present preliminary results of current research within Germany.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/990appropriationcollective and distributed authorshipcommercializationcopyrightfanfictiongift culture |
| spellingShingle | Wolfgang Reißmann Moritz Stock Svenja Kaiser Vanessa Isenberg Jörg-Uwe Nieland Fan (Fiction) Acting on Media and the Politics of Appropriation Media and Communication appropriation collective and distributed authorship commercialization copyright fanfiction gift culture |
| title | Fan (Fiction) Acting on Media and the Politics of Appropriation |
| title_full | Fan (Fiction) Acting on Media and the Politics of Appropriation |
| title_fullStr | Fan (Fiction) Acting on Media and the Politics of Appropriation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fan (Fiction) Acting on Media and the Politics of Appropriation |
| title_short | Fan (Fiction) Acting on Media and the Politics of Appropriation |
| title_sort | fan fiction acting on media and the politics of appropriation |
| topic | appropriation collective and distributed authorship commercialization copyright fanfiction gift culture |
| url | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/990 |
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