Writers in the secret garden : fanfiction, youth, and new forms of mentoring

Writers in the secret garden : fanfiction, youth, and new forms of mentoring / by Cecilia Aragon and Katie Davis

An in-depth examination of the novel ways young people support and learn from each other though participation in online fanfiction communities. Over the past twenty years, amateur fanfiction writers have published an astonishing amount of fiction in online repositories. More than 1.5 million enthusi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Aragon, Cecilia (Author), Davis, Katie (Assistant professor) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : MIT Press, [2019]
Series:Learning in large-scale environments.
Subjects:
Fan fiction.
EDUCATION > Teacher & Student Mentoring.
Fan fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Secret Garden
  • The history of fanfiction and mentoring
  • The theory of distributed mentoring
  • Our ethnographic work in fanfiction communities
  • The data science of fanfiction, learning, and writing
  • Conclusion: beyond fandom

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