Transmidiação narrativa: liberdade, autoria, colaboração e engajamento em produções textuais

Abstract

This investigation studies the possibilities of learning through authorship in the production of fanfics. For this, it discusses about digital culture, network authorship and transmedia narrative, as well as their implications for education. Conceptualizes fanfics, narrative productions by fans of a certain narrative universe, as a practice inserted in the context of digital culture, type of network authorship and transmedia narrative, which justifies the course of the theoretical discussion. The research aims to investigate how subjects immersed in digital culture, through network authorship, from the point of view of transmedia marked in fanfics, learn from narrative productions. To achieve this, the specific objectives worked on were: to study the concepts of transmedia narrative, transmedia, fanfics and network authorship; describe the content available on the Spirit Fanfics and Histories website; identify knowledge produced and built by the participants of this community / fan site, as well as how the story-building process happens; to analyze what and how the subjects participating in this community learn from this practice of reading and producing narratives. Based on the achievement of the proposed objectives, we defend the thesis that the practice of producing fanfics, through freedom, authorship, collaboration and, consequently, engagement, has potential for the learning process. The methodology contemplates the qualitative approach, through bibliographic research, in order to discuss concepts related to the theme. For the description of the Spirit Fanfics and Histories website, netnographic research was used and, through this, the participant observation technique. At this point in the research, all the functionalities of the website were observed and recorded, as well as the participants' contacts were collected in order to send the questionnaire online. The data were built from written records made by observing and analyzing questionnaires applied to four members of the site who have the function of beta readers. For the analysis of the questionnaires, content analysis was used according to Bardin (2011). Thus, we affirm that the triad (freedom, authorship and collaboration), present in the scenario of the production of fanfics, leads the subject to engage in the practice of producing fictional narratives. And, once engaged, it builds knowledge about the content it is producing. Thus, we also show that the practice of producing fictional fanfic / narrative has a relationship with Connectivism (SIEMENS, 2014) and the development of Autonomous Learning (FREIRE, 1996/2011).