
Long after the school year ends, students will still think about their Civil War-reenacting history teacher or their librarian who enters poetry competitions.
Long after the school year ends, students will still think about their Civil War-reenacting history teacher or their librarian who enters poetry competitions.
When it comes to fanfiction and academics, there is a long history of non-fans writing and doing things that fans don’t particularly like, so you should be extraordinarily careful when you introduce fanfiction-based exercises to wary young fans.
Do young fanfiction authors seek the kind of feedback that educators would find “useful” in K-12 settings, and are fanfiction communities really the nurturing environments of peer-critique that some make them out to be?
Student sports fans (in this case, baseball fans specifically) can leverage their outside-of-school literacies to comprehend and appreciate the sophisticated cartoons and high-level text.
“The key idea is actually a media literacy one related to representation: no one in real life actually looks like an anime or manga character.”
So does this sound like something that could get the teen and tween comics fans you know into nonfiction? Sure it does.
“A narrative experience like ‘The Lizzie Bennet Diaries’ is compelling in part because of the great bones of Austen’s story and characters, for sure. But equally compelling is the story form, the opportunity for consumers to engage deeply with those characters…”
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