Adding a digital dimension to fan studies methodologies

Digital fan fiction challenges the sovereignty of the literary object and necessitates a reevaluation of textuality. Fan fiction may be taken as a form of networked digital narrative that exists electronically and shares features with the printed book. With a focus on the paratext as a site of trans...

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Published inTransformative works and cultures Vol. 33
Main Author Black, Suzanne R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Organization for Transformative Works 15.06.2020
Subjects
captain america
digital humanities
fan fiction
fan studies
intertextuality
methodology
paratext
quantitative analysis
topic modeling
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ISSN1941-2258
1941-2258
DOI10.3983/twc.2020.1725

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Summary:Digital fan fiction challenges the sovereignty of the literary object and necessitates a reevaluation of textuality. Fan fiction may be taken as a form of networked digital narrative that exists electronically and shares features with the printed book. With a focus on the paratext as a site of transaction between fan fiction writers and readers, it is possible to attend to a negotiation between work and text. By using computational methods—word frequency analysis, topic modeling, and decision trees—to analyze fan fiction paratexts as they are used on the online fan fiction repository Archive of Our Own, it is possible to reevaluate the fan fiction paratext and the notion of the fan fiction text.
ISSN:1941-2258
1941-2258
DOI:10.3983/twc.2020.1725