Beyond traditional publishing models

Pecoskie, Jennifer L.; Hill, Heather

doi:10.1108/jd-10-2013-0133

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“…Fifty Shades of Grey ( James, 2012a, b, c), a story that first emerged as fanfiction, has been the catalyst for some of this research. Fifty Shades of Grey has been studied to understand the impact of digital paratext and intertext as tools constructing the fanfiction medium (Hill and Pecoskie, 2014) and for the ways in which readership is represented within the contemporary publishing process (Pecoskie and Hill, 2015).…”

Section: Fanfiction and Lismentioning

confidence: 99%

Information activities as serious leisure within the fanfiction community

Hill

Pecoskie

2017

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Purpose Fanfiction communities are actively engaged in creating cultural products. These large online communities have created and developed conventions that guide their solutions to gathering and presenting their work. The purpose of this paper is to investigate those conventions looking for evidence of information-related pursuits as serious leisure (SL) (Stebbins, 2007). Design/methodology/approach A diverse collection of fanfiction publishing platforms, blogs, and associated websites were subject to a qualitative inductive analysis (Lincoln and Guba, 1985). Platforms included both generalist sites like Archive of Our Own and more focused sites such as Teen Wolf Fic Finder. Findings Findings show significant information-related activities around collecting, wayfinding, and organizing. Collecting centers on platform policies focused on scope. Wayfinding relates to peer review as well as various reference-like work including reader’s advisory, reference questioning, and the creation of pathfinders. Organizing looks to the unique organizational schema created and used by the fanfiction communities. Research limitations/implications The authors explore implications of these activities in reference to the fanfiction community and the library and information science (LIS) discipline. The fanfiction community is shifting out of an ephemeral existence and into one of a more permanent digital heritage. Fanfiction is an SL pursuit that also has much to offer for consideration to the LIS discipline. Practical implications With respect to the wayfinding and organizing conventions of fanfiction communities, these activities provide librarianship with the opportunity to consider traditional activities in new ways. Originality/value Fanfiction is a little studied phenomenon in SL and in LIS. This research provides connections to both areas.

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Section: Fanfiction and Lismentioning

confidence: 99%

Information activities as serious leisure within the fanfiction community

Hill

Pecoskie

2017

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Re(a)d wedding: A case study exploring everyday information behaviors of the transmedia fan

Forcier

2017

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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As practitioners of new forms of consumption and production, fans represent an important area for research. Specifically, fans of "transmedia systems"media-hopping networks of intertextualities that extend the narrative world of an original productionemploy unique tactics for negotiating a complex information space. The study of such tactics provides valuable insights on the everyday information behaviors of modern post-digital readers and media consumers that could benefit literacy and community engagement. Despite this, fans have received little attention in the information behavior literature. Therefore, this paper seeks to contribute new empirical understandings of the transmedia fan to the information behavior domain. The author undertook a pilot case study of the Game of Thrones transmedia fandom. Using a grounded theory approach, the qualitative coding of 400 online user comments revealed four types of tactics employed by fans to negotiate the transmedia system: sentimental, reasoned, relational and comic. A discussion of these tactics and the ways in which fans use them results in a preliminary definition and information behavior cycle model for the transmedia fan. The study's findings offer key observations about the everyday information behavior of fans and about reading and media consumption practices in general.

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