Inspirações e autorias nas criações das fanfics na Cibercultura

Abstract

This master’s degree thesis, called Inspiration and authorship at fanfiction creation in Cyberculture, has the goal of understanding the fanfiction literary genre as autorship practices among fans in the context of Cyberculture. For that we bring up the following questions in this research: how are fans making fanfictions nowadays? What metodological practices are appropriate for fanfiction researchers? How can fanfictions create autorship networks among students? It is seeking these understandings in which we opted for the bricolage of cyber- research-formation with everyday lives as a methodology. We seek to study the everyday lives of these fans and the ‘knowledgessignifications’ created by them. Our case study was public Rio de Janeiro state school, located in Nova Iguaçu, in Baixada Fluminense. We have, as this research’s ‘practicionerthinkers’, young students of the first year of the Normal Course (teachers’ formation) and the teacher who lectures Portuguese language studies and literature. As means of research, we opted to create the Wattpad site/app for posting the narratives and its respectives readings and comments, as such as the discussion tables in which we discuss our experiences in this activity. For this study, we bring up a bit of the fanfiction universe, in details about these reading spaces among fans, the own dialects running in these places, as well as a little of the history behind the fanfiction scene in Brazil and the world. In this thesis, we understand the need of recognizing fanfiction reading and writing as a diverse learning way. We realize here, that, the meaning of autorship constantly changes in cyperspaces visited by fans and how they inspire themselves in their idols and favorite works, but how they also get inspired by themselves for their creations. Our research reveals how the youth writes, although in unkown spaces for a lot of educators and how schools still follow a hegemonic model of reading and writing. It is by comprehending the youth’s cultural practices in which we find out new means of creating a new education, that can be interesting as well for the new generations attending school spaces nowadays.