Second Year Winner: Feedback in Online Fanfiction

WRIT 2004, Writing in Digital Cultures. Course Director: Jon Sufrin

Abstract

"Feedback in Online Fanfiction" explores the role that the participants in online fanfiction communities play in integrating newer members into those communities, increasing the communities' appeal and the benefits of joining them, and helping fledgling fanfiction authors become better writers. Drawing on a wide array of scholarship, the author of this paper argues that the growth of online fanfiction communities demonstrates the importance that collaboration is now playing in the online writing world.