Guerrero-Pico M, Costa-Sánchez C, Establés MJ

GUERRERO PICÓ, MAR

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Profesional de la Informacion

2022

31

2

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1386-6710

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In recent years, Wattpad has become the leading collaborative reading and writing platform allowing young writers to publish their works, some of which belong to the tradition of fan fiction, including stories derived from a source text from popular culture. The main objective of this article is to explore how teenagers reading and writing fan fiction on Wattpad apply transmedia skills related to production and narrative and esthetic reflection. Using a theoretical framework that integrates transmedia literacy, fan fiction communities as affinity spaces, and Wattpad as a tool to promote transmedia reading, we carry out a qualitative study using data collected from workshops, media newspapers, and interviews with adolescents in five different Spanish regions. The results highlight identity-play in the production of the stories, in which fanfics about real-life celebrities from the teenagers¿ media universes coexist with original stories inspired by the authors¿ personal lives and interests. Likewise, there is a trend toward the hybridization of fan fiction with languages and formats more typical of social media platforms, such as Instagram, with a superficial application of narrative and esthetic transmedia skills related to fan fiction practices. © 2022, El Profesional de la Informacion. All rights reserved.

Guerrero-Pico M, Costa-Sánchez C, Establés MJ. Fan fiction and transmedia literacy practices on Wattpad: exploring the narrative and aesthetic skills of teenagers [Fan fiction y prácticas de lectoescritura transmedia en Wattpad: una exploración de las competencias narrativas y estéticas de adolescentes]. Profesional de la Informacion 2022; 31(2).