Phase I: Fanfiction
The next set of tables describes the fanfiction activities of the sample.
99.3% of the sample said they had read fanfiction at least once, though 96.6% considered "fanfic reader" to be a part of their fandom identity. In this set of questions, participants were asked to indicate all of the fanfiction activities that they engaged in regularly enough to consider them part of their identity as a fan. Then, they were asked to choose a "primary id" that best described their fanfiction activity.
Fans read and wrote in multiple genres. For this question, I did not ask for a primary genre, though that would have been interesting in retrospect.
Fanfiction readers prefer "R" rated fiction, while writers reported primarily writing "PG-13" fiction. For the purposes of this study and the next set of variables, I was particularly interested in the experiences of those readers and writers who had experience with "R" and "NC-17" rated fanfiction(when those ratings were given for sexual content). The mean numbers reported on the slide correspond with the following quantitative ratings: G or K = 1, PG or K+=2, etc.
The remaining results discuss sexuality-related variables and will be put under friends-lock. I will add anyone who requests, so if you'd like to see the rest of the data, please add me (at least temporarily) to your reading list and I will add back.
Citation: Meggers, H.J. (2010, April). Fans in Online Fannish Spaces: Expressions of Self and Sexuality. Paper presented at the meeting of The National Popular Culture & American Culture Associations Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO.
99.3% of the sample said they had read fanfiction at least once, though 96.6% considered "fanfic reader" to be a part of their fandom identity. In this set of questions, participants were asked to indicate all of the fanfiction activities that they engaged in regularly enough to consider them part of their identity as a fan. Then, they were asked to choose a "primary id" that best described their fanfiction activity.
Fans read and wrote in multiple genres. For this question, I did not ask for a primary genre, though that would have been interesting in retrospect.
Fanfiction readers prefer "R" rated fiction, while writers reported primarily writing "PG-13" fiction. For the purposes of this study and the next set of variables, I was particularly interested in the experiences of those readers and writers who had experience with "R" and "NC-17" rated fanfiction(when those ratings were given for sexual content). The mean numbers reported on the slide correspond with the following quantitative ratings: G or K = 1, PG or K+=2, etc.
The remaining results discuss sexuality-related variables and will be put under friends-lock. I will add anyone who requests, so if you'd like to see the rest of the data, please add me (at least temporarily) to your reading list and I will add back.
Citation: Meggers, H.J. (2010, April). Fans in Online Fannish Spaces: Expressions of Self and Sexuality. Paper presented at the meeting of The National Popular Culture & American Culture Associations Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO.