Fan fiction (English Wikipedia)

Campbell, Julie Ann; Aragon, Cecilia; Davis, Katie; Evans, Sarah; Evans, Abigail; Randall, David P. (2016). "Thousands of Positive Reviews: Distributed Mentoring in Online Fan Communities". Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. pp. 691–704. arXiv:1510.01425. doi:10.1145/2818048.2819934. ISBN 978-1-4503-3592-8.

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Jeff Prucher, ed. (2007). "fan fiction". Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-19-530567-8. Archived from the original on February 22, 2024. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
Bacon-Smith, Camille (2000). Science Fiction Culture. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 112–113. ISBN 978-0-8122-1530-4. Archived from the original on February 22, 2024. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
Heilman, Elizabeth E. (September 1, 2008). Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter. Routledge. pp. 320–321. ISBN 9781135891541. Archived from the original on February 22, 2024. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
Lugmayr, Artur; Zotto, Cinzia Dal (July 23, 2016). Media Convergence Handbook – Vol. 2: Firms and User Perspectives. Springer. p. 148. ISBN 9783642544873. Archived from the original on February 22, 2024. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
Attinello, Paul Gregory; Halfyard, Janet K.; Knights, Vanessa (January 1, 2010). Music, Sound and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 114, 129. ISBN 9780754660415. Archived from the original on February 22, 2024. Retrieved October 24, 2020.

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Schulz, Nancy (December 31, 2001). "Fan Fiction—TV Viewers Have It Their Way". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on August 6, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
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Pepitone, Julianne (May 3, 2013). "Amazon's "Kindle Worlds" lets fan fiction writers sell their stories". CNN Money. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013. Retrieved May 23, 2013.

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Romano, Aja (October 1, 2012). "Yuletide, the Internet's biggest "Secret Santa" fanfiction exchange, turns 10". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on July 9, 2023. Retrieved January 9, 2024.

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Jenkins, Henry (December 10, 2019). "'Art Happens not in Isolation, But in Community': The Collective Literacies of Media Fandom". Cultural Science. 11 (1): 78–88. doi:10.5334/csci.125.
Bradley, Karen (Winter 2005). "Internet lives: Social context and moral domain in adolescent development". New Directions for Youth Development. 2005 (108): 57–76. doi:10.1002/yd.142. PMID 16570878.
Brennan, Joseph; Large, David (2014). "'Let's get a bit of context': Fifty Shades and the phenomenon of 'pulling to publish' in Twilight fan fiction". Media International Australia. 152 (1): 27–39. doi:10.1177/1329878X1415200105. S2CID 140471681.
Duggan, Jennifer (September 1, 2020). "Who writes Harry Potter fan fiction? Passionate detachment, 'zooming out,' and fan fiction paratexts on AO3". Transformative Works and Cultures. 34. doi:10.3983/twc.2020.1863. S2CID 224983629. Archived from the original on June 28, 2023. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
Campbell, Julie Ann; Aragon, Cecilia; Davis, Katie; Evans, Sarah; Evans, Abigail; Randall, David P. (2016). "Thousands of Positive Reviews: Distributed Mentoring in Online Fan Communities". Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. pp. 691–704. arXiv:1510.01425. doi:10.1145/2818048.2819934. ISBN 978-1-4503-3592-8.
Samutina, Natalia (July 3, 2016). "Fan fiction as world-building: transformative reception in crossover writing". Continuum. 30 (4): 433–450. doi:10.1080/10304312.2016.1141863. ISSN 1030-4312. S2CID 147685039. Archived from the original on February 22, 2024. Retrieved July 11, 2021.
Nelson, Melissa; Bullard, Julia (August 2025). "When Is It Genre? Complicating the Categorization of Fan-Generated Metadata". Library Trends. 74 (1): 123–147. doi:10.1353/lib.2025.a970680.
Linn, Rachel Elizabeth (September 15, 2017). "Bodies in horrifying hurt/comfort fan fiction: Paying the toll". Transformative Works and Cultures. 25. doi:10.3983/twc.2017.01102. ISSN 1941-2258. Archived from the original on July 11, 2021. Retrieved July 11, 2021.
Sapuridis, Effie; Alberto, Maria K. (June 2022). "Self-Insert Fanfiction as Digital Technology of the Self". Humanities. 11 (3): 68. doi:10.3390/h11030068. ISSN 2076-0787.
Herzog, Alexandra Elisabeth (September 15, 2012). ""But this is my story and this is how I wanted to write it": Author's notes as a fannish claim to power in fan fiction writing". Transformative Works and Cultures. 11. doi:10.3983/twc.2012.0406. Archived from the original on October 8, 2023. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
Kelley, Brittany (June 2016). "Chocolate Frogs for My Betas!: Practicing Literacy at One Online Fanfiction Website". Computers and Composition. 40: 48–59. doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2016.03.001.
Tosenberger, Catherine (2008) "Homosexuality at the Online Hogwarts: Harry Potter Slash Fanfiction" Children's Literature 36 pp. 185-207 doi:10.1353/chl.0.0017
Rebello, Clara B.; Ghir, Sonia; Reddock, Kiana; Ignacio, Angelie; Cupchik, Gerald C. (September 4, 2025). "Writing and reading fan fiction: The roles of self and social media". Psychology of Popular Media. doi:10.1037/ppm0000613. ISSN 2689-6575.
Taylor, Laramie D. (2021). "Eudaimonia, hedonia, and fan behavior: Examining the motives of fans of fictional texts". Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 15 (2): 264–271. doi:10.1037/aca0000270. ISSN 1931-390X.
Samutina, Natalia (July 3, 2016). "Fan fiction as world-building: transformative reception in crossover writing". Continuum. 30 (4): 433–450. doi:10.1080/10304312.2016.1141863. ISSN 1030-4312.
Van Steenhuyse, Veerle (December 1, 2011). "The Writing and Reading of Fan Fiction and Transformation Theory". CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. 13 (4). doi:10.7771/1481-4374.1691. hdl:1854/LU-2033363. ISSN 1481-4374.
Hills, Matthew (September 2, 2003). Fan Cultures (1 ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203361337. ISBN 978-0-203-36133-7.
Barnes, Jennifer L. (February 1, 2015). "Fanfiction as imaginary play: What fan-written stories can tell us about the cognitive science of fiction". Poetics. 48: 69–82. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2014.12.004. ISSN 0304-422X.
Turk, Tisha (March 15, 2014). "Fan work: Labor, worth, and participation in fandom's gift economy". Transformative Works and Cultures. 15. doi:10.3983/twc.2014.0518. ISSN 1941-2258.

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Van Steenhuyse, Veerle (December 1, 2011). "The Writing and Reading of Fan Fiction and Transformation Theory". CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. 13 (4). doi:10.7771/1481-4374.1691. hdl:1854/LU-2033363. ISSN 1481-4374.

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Ford, Rebecca (June 4, 2015). "'Mom' Writer Susan McMartin to Adapt One Direction-Inspired Fan-Fiction 'After' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on August 29, 2015. Retrieved September 2, 2015.

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