Young, Female, Single…? A Study of Demographics and Writing-/Reading-Habits of Fanfiction Writers and Readers
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Academic Commentary | |
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Title: | Young, Female, Single…? A Study of Demographics and Writing-/Reading-Habits of Fanfiction Writers and Readers |
Commentator: | Jae |
Date(s): | study was done in 2004 |
Medium: | online |
Fandom: | |
External Links: | online here |
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Young, Female, Single…? A Study of Demographics and Writing-/Reading-Habits of Fanfiction Writers and Readers is a partial academic paper, and a full outline by Jae.
"This is an online study I did. About 550 writers and 550 readers of fanfiction from all over the world participated. This is the translation of the original work, which was written in German....From October to December 2004, 553 fanfiction-authors and 531 readers filled out the questionnaires."
Motives for Writing Slash Fanfiction
Some topics:
- Sexual stimulation
- Lack of strong female characters in entertainment
- Portrayal of an equal relationship
- Expression of feminism
- Redefinition of masculinity
- Appeal of the forbidden fruit
- Bypassing social taboos
- Endless romance
- Political statement
Sections
- outline
- (introduction to) slash fanfiction
- (introduction to) fanfiction
- summary
- extensive reference section
Fanworks Cited
- The never-ending story
- Coming Out as a Fanfiction Writer.
- Destina's Fan Fiction FAQ
- Female Characters and Women Slashers
- Slash vs. Gay
- Writing 'Slash' Fan Fiction: Power, Desire and Eye-Candy in a Never Ending Romance
- The Slash Not Written For a Gay Audience
- Spock Does Mulder
- The Ballad of the Internet Nutball: Chaining Rhetorical Visions from the Margins of the Margins to the Mainstream in the Xenaverse
- The Stories are Out There
- Private Uses of Cyberspace: Women, Desire, and Fan Culture
- Fandom's Final Frontier: Homoerotic Literature
- Textual Extenders
- The Fanfiction Universe: Some Statistical Approaches
- Statistics. How Much Fan Fiction Is There on the Web? How Many Fans? Who Are They?
- Subtext and Slash: Having Your Cake and Eating it Too
- The Metaphor of Cyberspace: Conceptualizing a New Body