Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet

Commentary
Title:	Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet
Commentator:	editors, Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson
Date(s):	2006
Medium:	edited book
Fandom:	multi, meta
External Links:	Abstracts, Publishers page, Googlebooks
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Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet is a collection of acafannish essays edited by Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson. The book, published in 2006, attempts to update earlier fan scholarship by Camille Bacon-Smith, Constance Penley and Henry Jenkins by looking at how fan culture has expanded onto the internet and by examining such relatively recent phenomena as "fan culture revolving around mailing lists and blogs", "the growing acceptability of a contentious subject position", and "the community-centered and fraught nature of the creation of fan texts."

The essays in the book are all written by fans who are also academics, and the book attempts to "use fannish practice as a model for academic practice" by seeing itself as a WIP rather than as providing definitive, permanent answers.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Work in Progress by Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson
• A Brief History of Media Fandom by Francesca Coppa

Part 1. Different Approaches: Fan Fiction in Context

• Chapter 1. Archontic Literature: A Definition, a History, and Several Theories of Fan Fiction by Abigail Derecho
• Chapter 2. One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance by Catherine Driscoll
• Chapter 3. Intimatopia: Genre Intersections Between Slash and the Mainstream by Liz Woledge

Part 2. Characters, Style, Text: Fan Fiction as Literature

• Chapter 4. The Toy Soldiers from Leeds: The Slash Palimpsest by Mafalda Stasi
• Chapter 5. Construction of Fan Fiction Character Through Narrative by Deborah Kaplan
• Chapter 6. Keeping Promises to Queer Children: Making Space (for Mary Sue) at Hogwarts by Ika Willis

Part 3. Readers and Writers: Fan Fiction and Community

• Chapter 7. The Audience as Editor: The Role of Beta Readers in Online Fan Fiction Communities by Angelina I. Karpovich
• Chapter 8. Cunning Linguists: The Bisexual Erotics of Words/Silence/Flesh by Eden Lackner, Barbara Lynn Lucas, and Robin Anne Reid
• Chapter 9. My Life Is a WIP on My LJ: Slashing the Slasher and the Reality of Celebrity and Internet Performances by Kristina Busse

Part 4. Medium and Message: Fan Fiction and Beyond

• Chapter 10. Writing Bodies in Space: Media Fan Fiction as Theatrical Performance by Francesca Coppa
• Chapter 11. “This Dratted Thing”: Fannish Storytelling Through New Media by Louisa Stein
• Chapter 12. From Shooting Monsters to Shooting Movies: Machinima and the Transformative Play of Video Game Fan Culture by Robert Jones