The Sociology of Fanfiction Episode (is fanfiction *important*?)

Is fanfiction important? Culturally relevant? A thing that will be studied generations from now?

In 2000, Henry Jenkins, Director of Media Studies at MIT, published a piece for the MIT Technology Review in which he wrote:

“Contemporary Web culture is the traditional folk process working at lightning speed on a global scale. The difference is that our core myths now belong to corporations, rather than the folk.”

Previously, he wrote in a 1997 New York Times piece:

“Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of by the folk.”

Anyone who either writes or consumes Our Flag Means Death fanfiction can feel this sentiment in our bones.

Today Shelby (@shelbs_art_06 on Instagram) discusses the sociological context of fanfiction.

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