Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays
By (author): "Louisa Stein, Robin Anne Reid, Barbara Lynn Lucas, Eden Lackner, Angelina I. Karpovich, Ika Willis, Deborah Kaplan, Mafalda Stasi, Liz Woledge, Catherine Driscoll, Abigail Derecho, Francesca Coppa, Kristina Busse, Karen Hellekson"
ISBN0786426403
ISBN139780786426409
AsinFan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays
Original titleFan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet
Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face enterprises to easily accessible global communities, within which fan texts proliferate and are widely read and even more widely commented upon. New interactions between readers and writers of fan texts are possible in these new virtual communities. From Star Trek to Harry Potter,