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Traces fanfic’s origins across earlier media cultures and serial storytelling, then examines shifting reputations for “geeky” genres. Reviews academic perspectives on fan practices, including social and emotional aims. Discusses copyright risks that shaped fan communities, and highlights Archive of Our Own (AO3) as an affinity space enabling collaborative, largely anonymized publication.","The Promise and Potential of Fan Fiction  \n [newyorker.com](newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-promise-and-potential-of-fan-fiction)[/books/page-turner/the-promise-and-potential-of-fan-fiction](newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-promise-and-potential-of-fan-fiction)[ ](newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-promise-and-potential-of-fan-fiction)By Stephanie  \nBurt  \nFan fiction offers new writers a clearer path to potentially interested readers than has ever previously existed.  \nIllustration by Jamie Coe  \nFirst there was “Star Trek ,” the original series , whose viewers—many of them women inSTEM fields—organized conventions and created self-published journals (a. k.a. fanzines) with fiction about its characters , a small but notorious slice of which included sexy doings between Kirk and Spock. Or: first there were fans of science-fiction novels and magazines who held conventions and traded self-published journals as early as the nineteen-thirties. Or: first there was Sherlock Holmes , whose devotees , hooked by serial publication , pushed for more stories , formed clubs  , and wrote their own. Or: first came Virgil’s Aeneid. Or: first, the Janeites. Or: first there was you , and your friends , age ten , making up adventures in which Chewbacca met Addy Walker, and writing them down.  \nHowever it started ,  however you define it, and whether or not you read it, at this point you’ve probably heard of fan fiction (abbreviated as “fanfic” by its enthusiasts) . The advent of the Internet, where anyone can distribute text for free , and the arrival of such all-ages pop-culture juggernauts as Harry Potter, have together meant that the amount and the availability of fanfiction—narrowly defined by Francesca Coppa , in her new book , “The Fanfiction Reader,” as“creative material featuring characters [from] works whose copyright is held by others”—has grown spectacularly in the course of this century. So has its reputation , both because all things  \ngeeky , science-fictional , and fantastic now carry less stigma (or more cachet) and because authors with fanfic backgrounds have hit the big time. E. L. James famously converted her online “Twilight” novel , “Master of the Universe ,” into the 2011 blockbuster “Fifty Shades of Grey” by removing names , vampires , and anything else that might infringe a “Twilight”copyright, a move known in fanfic circles as “filing off the serial numbers.” (She also removed the earlier text from the Web. ) Fanfic itself is now a recurrent subject for professionally published novelists: Rainbow Rowell’s fun “Carry On ,” published in 2015 , was , in her words ,“inspired by fictional fanfiction of a fictional series” described in Rowell’s earlier novel “Fangirl.”  \nA couple of years ago , Anne Jamison , a professor at the University of Utah , published a spectacularly useful study called “Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World,” written together with contributors from many fandoms and published by a small press. Jamison’s volume topped a stack of earlier books and essays by “aca-fans” that explained fan practices through one or another academic lens. Some focussed on homoerotic pairings (“slash ,” from the virgule in “Kirk/Spock”) , others on how amateurs built their own institutions , others on particular fandoms (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” say , or One Direction) . The people who wrote these books and articles were anthropologists , psychoanalytic feminists ,  British-style culturalstudies types , legal scholars , and , more recently , literary critics , like Jamison (she is also a Kafka expert) . All these scholars investigated the social , emotional , and aesthetic goals that fanfic , and sometimes only fanfic , can meet.  \nThat stack of books did not, however, contain much actual fan fiction: a printed collection of the stuff, from a university press , with no serial numbers removed , would likely have been impossible as recently as five years ago , because the corporations that own Buffy , or Genera","cbCaigCjB207YsNj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigCjB207YsNj","pdf",129380,1,4,"English","en",105,"# Fan Fiction’s Origins and Growth\n## Internet Distribution and Reputation\n## Academic Studies of Fan Practice\n## Copyright Pressure and Community Evolution\n## Archive of Our Own (AO3) and Affinity Spaces","[{\"question\":\"What factors helped fan fiction grow into a widely available form of writing?\",\"answer\":\"The Internet enabled free distribution, and mainstream pop-culture franchises made fanfiction more visible and accessible. 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