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ISBN: 0262355639 0262355620 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : MIT Press,
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"While the enormous corpa of fanfiction has started to get scholarly attention, there have been few studies of how young writers are learning by contributing to these online communities. The existing studies that look at the writing and editing processes in fanfiction use individual works and authors rather than large scale quantitative research. Katie Davis and Cecilia Aragon -- an education researcher and a data scientist -- have formed a very productive partnership investigating the mechanisms of literacy formation on fanfiction sites. In this book, Aragon and Davis combine qualitative and quantitative analysis of fanfiction communities. Their five-year project used mixed-methods research, including in-depth ethnographic studies and computational analyses of vast data sets, uncovering a new kind of mentoring -- distributed mentoring -- uniquely suited to networked communities. The authors describe the evolving space of fanfiction and then develop the seven attributes of distributed mentoring: aggregation, accretion, acceleration, abundance, availability, asynchronicity, and affect. To test the theory of distributed mentoring quantitatively using this massive corpus, the authors longitudinally tracked lexical diversity over stories as authors received feedback. The combination of ethnography and data science makes this work unique, and should be of interest well beyond the core audience of literacy researchers"--
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ISBN: 9780262355629 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, MA London MIT Press
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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 enthusiastic fanfiction writers—primarily young people in their teens and twenties—have contributed nearly seven million stories and more than 176 million reviews to a single online site, Fanfiction.net. In this book, Cecilia Aragon and Katie Davis provide an in-depth examination of fanfiction writers and fanfiction repositories, finding that these sites are not shallow agglomerations and regurgitations of pop culture but rather online spaces for sophisticated and informal learning. Through their participation in online fanfiction communities, young people find ways to support and learn from one another. Aragon and Davis term this novel system of interactive advice and instruction distributed mentoring, and describe its seven attributes, each of which is supported by an aspect of networked technologies: aggregation, accretion, acceleration, abundance, availability, asynchronicity, and affect. Employing an innovative combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses, they provide an in-depth ethnography, reporting on a nine-month study of three fanfiction sites, and offer a quantitative analysis of lexical diversity in the 61.5 billion words on the Fanfiction.net site. Going beyond fandom, Aragon and Davis consider how distributed mentoring could improve not only other online learning platforms but also formal writing instruction in schools.
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