Fanfiction as imaginary play: What fan-written stories can tell us about the cognitive science of fiction

Los fanfictions como escritura en colaboración: modelos de lectores beta

“…Todos ellos han destacado el valor formativo que poseen estos nuevos alfabetismos en la educación no formal de los jóvenes y adolescentes. Desde este punto de vista los fanfictions son producciones realizadas en tiempos de ocio como prácticas vernáculas (Cassany, 2010) y forman parte de la vida personal de los escritores Knobel, 2008;Barnes, 2015). En cualquier caso, esta forma de producción hipertextual se basa en la escritura colaborativa o social y requiere de desarrolladas competencias lectoras y literarias debido a que se debe conocer en profundidad la diégesis del hipotexto (texto origen) y además, competencias escritoras para la elaboración de las historias.…”

Restorying the Self: Bending Toward Textual Justice

“…Along with the "racebent Hermione" tag, this reading demonstrates that the phenomenon of bending is not simply a matter of fan art but may indeed have implications for the phenomenology of reading-what young people imagine as they make sense of the story as written on the page. As Jennifer Barnes (2015) notes, There is evidence to the support the idea that readers contribute imaginatively to the fictional stories they consume. Prior research has shown that readers will project a gender onto a character whose gender is not specified, import realworld facts into fictional worlds, and misremember the details of a story to make it more congruent with stories from their own culture .…”

When Englishes go digital

“…Fanfiction itself brings together the worlds of cartoons, literature, anime, manga, movies, and music. In the process, according to Barnes (, p. 68), fanfiction develops as ‘a form of imaginary play that reflects both emotional engagement with and resistance to the source material.’ That way, one can modify those elements of the source story they find problematic through their own rewrites. In that sense, it in itself is a hybrid form too.…”

“…and new norms of politeness and opposition (Barnes, 2015) are constantly developing. For example, fan fiction can work as a channel for rewriting social norms through modification of existing texts (Leavenworth, 2015, p. 40), and each social media outlet has its own norms of accepted practices that give away who is an insider and who is not.…”