Works of Fan Communities as a Part of Contemporary System of Cultural Industries (the Case of Fanfiction)

Student: Ukhanaeva Anna

Educational Programme: Visual Culture (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2016

While fanfiction studies usually define fanfiction as a phenomena of participatory culture, academics stress its interactive nature in context of fan community. Relations between fandoms and professional producers are reduced to commercial and legal aspects. This diploma is a try to find out the part of fan labor in modern cultural industries by the example of "Sherlock" series.

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