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Writers in the Secret Garden - Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring (Paperback)
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Writers in the Secret Garden - Fanfiction, Youth, and New Forms of Mentoring (Paperback)
Series: Learning in Large-Scale Environments
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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. 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. 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. Through their participation in online fanfiction
communities, young people find ways to support and learn from one
another. Aragon and Davis term this novel system of interactive
advice and instruction distributed mentoring, and describe its
seven attributes, each of which is supported by an aspect of
networked technologies: aggregation, accretion, acceleration,
abundance, availability, asynchronicity, and affect. Employing an
innovative combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses,
they provide an in-depth ethnography, reporting on a nine-month
study of three fanfiction sites, and offer a quantitative analysis
of lexical diversity in the 61.5 billion words on the
Fanfiction.net site. Going beyond fandom, Aragon and Davis consider
how distributed mentoring could improve not only other online
learning platforms but also formal writing instruction in schools.
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