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Sharing my model of the #FanfictionCommunicationCircuit, a refashioning of Darnton's circuit that places fanfiction production in tandem to traditionally-published books and elaborates on the production of creative reader responses! #bookhistory #pandemicbookshelves
The reader centers the circuit because her desire to further explore the source text universe (e.g. Lord of the Rings, found in the right hand circuit via traditional means) draws her into fan creations (fanfiction, fan art, meta analyses, encyclopedias, found in fandom spaces).
Readers might respond to these works with comments, likes (kudos for my fellow AO3ers), shares, reviews, fanart, additional fic that elaborates on the fic-world, and, of course, bookbinding fanfiction! #bookhistory #FanfictionCommunicationCircuit
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This 'fannish response' circulates back to the fic writer and affirms them for their work, which is the core of fandom's gifting-receiving-reciprocating model. #bookhistory
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#FanfictionCommunicationCircuit #revisitingDarnton
Fic writers get this feedback and continue to produce fanfiction, posting on independent distributing platforms like Archive of Our Own, http://FanFiction.Net or fandom-specific sites. #bookhistory
#FanfictionCommunicationCircuit
#revisitingDarnton
#FanfictionCommunicationCircuit
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Fic writers retain agency over their work and are their own publishers in this way: they can abandon, delete, or 'orphan' works (unique to AO3, strips the fic of its author's name). Writers share the publisher role with the distributing platforms. #FanfictionCommunicationCircuit
Fic readers often become fic writers, hence the transitional exchange relationship between the reader and writer. Reading fic (can and does) inform how one writes it. #bookhistory
#FanfictionCommunicationCircuit
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#FanfictionCommunicationCircuit
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and whether fannish products return to the source text author, reentering Darnton's original circuit? It certainly happens, and we can see real time adoption of fanon, or fan canon developed in fannish spaces, by authors who are attentive to their fan base's ideas. #bookhistory
But it doesn't have to. Once fans have gotten ahold of something...the author might not matter at all. Or they might matter so much it is painful. That's a different thread for a different night. #bookhistory
#FanfictionCommunicationCircuit #revisitingDarnton
#FanfictionCommunicationCircuit #revisitingDarnton
