Tracing Fan Uptakes: Tagging, Language, and Ideological Practices in The Legend of Korra Fanfictions

Abstract

• Aim: Writing analytics as a growing field mainly explores data collected in traditional educational settings, such as writing done in classrooms, for student feedback, for tests, and in writing centers. One of the aims of this research note is to advocate for the inclusion of fanfiction genres in writing analytics. Fanfictions are texts written by fans of a particular cultural material (i.e., television shows, movies, books) or in some cases people (i.e., bands, political figures, pop stars) in which the fans reimagine the characters, stories, settings, and the original cultural material’s universe.