New forms of media publishing
Nowadays, the internet plays a big role in our society. Previously, people only get information from printed material as well as broadcast station, the audience and readers have no ways to change or create their own stories or own videos by them self
Fanfiction
A new trend of media publishing coming out recently, which is Fan fiction. Fanfiction as known as fanfic or fan fiction is now a new trend of media publishing. Fanfiction which is discovered by fans and forming a group, mailing lists and newsgroups for the sharing of fan-written fiction and fan-painted art. (Harmon 2010)
Fans of a story books, idols group, or movie will like to create a blog or a post in the forum, and start to create their own story by using the actual characters, or using the story to continue with their own preferable ending and so on.
Acting upon the fans fascination with the source material and their frustration over the refusal of producers to tell the kind of stories they want to see, usually, fan fiction writers take upon themselves to present a reading of the favored text that may repair or dismiss unsatisfying aspects, or even develop interests not sufficiently explored. (Mundim 2006, p.231)
[Figure 1] (Source: The Produser )
According to Snurb (2008) show in figure 1 below, there is a Produser chain where participants act more as users which utilizing existing resources or more as producers adding new information varies over time and across tasks. Overall take on a hybrid users or producer role which inextricably interweave both forms of participation and thereby become produsers. (Snurb 2008)Example of Harry Porter Fanfiction
[Source: Harry Porter]
For example Harry Porter fan fiction is quite famous, the fans of Harry Portter use the character of Harry to create story, fans can publish their fan fiction freely as long as they didn’t use it to get a profit, then it will not goes against copyright problems.
Issues arise:
Fan fiction has come across some copyright problems.In general, copyright holders, such as authors or production companies, feign ignorance at the burgeoning community of writers producing fiction in the universe they ‘own’. (Harmon 2010) Moreover, fans can free publishing their fan fiction online whereby checking the author explicitly posts a “Sandbox Open” sign, then fans must leave the universe alone. (Bunnell 2010)
According to Mundim (2006 p.234)Fan fiction moves relentlessly as a phenomenon and a practice taking the collective text as the base from which to generate a wide range of media-related stories, the fan readers exhibiting a fierce desire to engage, to create and share; fan fiction are not unique in their status of popular readers or publishers but they have developed both popular reading and self-sufficient publishing to an art form.
There are some fan fiction where fans make it as videos, cut and paste from the twilight movies.
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Reference :
Bunnell, JC 2010, About Fanfiction, Sff Net Member, viewed 24th September 2010,
Harmon, J 2010, What is Fanfiction?, Wisegeek, viewed 24th September 2010,
Mundim, IS 2006, Roswell, textual gaps and fans’ subversive response, viewed 24th September 2010,
Snurb 2008, Reading Sample 1- Produsage: An Introduction, Produsage, viewed 24th September 2010,
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