Fanfiction and the Art of Webnovels: Public Lecture

Fanfiction is a fascinating arena of cultural production with its own norms, hierarchies, and structuring practices. While the West has been slow to embrace self-produced online contents as ‘legitimate’ works of literature and art, in the East fanworks and self-produced online fiction have gained mainstream popularity; this has led publishers/corporations to establish ‘legitimate’ online platforms for web novelists and illustrators to publish and serialise their works.

On Thursday 15th April 2021, I gave a guest lecture on web-fiction cultures in Asia to a class of 32 participants. The lecture covered doujinshi culture in Japan, inso culture in South Korea, as well as English-speaking Asian fan cultures (read: k-pop and anime).

The event was organised by Creative Communities at Keele University. The lecture playback and learning resources we covered during the webinar can be found here! Or go to the link www.helloboo.com/ffp.