- Assemblage – a group of materials that intra-act.
- Becoming – New Materialist researchers use this term to describe how all materials are always in the process of change through intra-action with other materials. Rather than “being” a material, materials are always becoming what they are, always in flux.
- Congeal – New Materialist researchers use this term to describe how materials come together to create a new phenomenon.
- Entanglement – A group of materials intra-acting.
- Fanfiction – amateur creative works based on existing media.
- Intra-action – the ways in which different materials work together and change each other to become something new individually and together.
- Line of Flight – offshoot of a rhizome, the topic under study, representing how concepts and materials are connected and intra-act. It is a path of connection in which materials intra-act with each other.
- Materials – any substantial item. This can be an object, text, or human.
- New Literacies – literacies that involve new and changing technologies, are unbounded and valued for wide dispersion, are dynamic and deictic, are multimodal, involve new, complex interactions with text, are collaborative and participatory, are specialized, personalized, and authentic.
- New Materialism – an ontology emphasizing intra-actions of materials and de-centering the human in research studies.
- Newness-the new phenomenon that is created when a group of materials intra-act.
- Traditional Literacy – isolated reading and writing of print materials.
- Young Adult Literature – literature marketed towards and often featuring adolescents.
- Alternate Universe (AU) – A fanfiction story using characters from an original work of fiction but is set in a different world than that of the original fiction. This can sometimes be a different time period, a different place, or the world of another fictional creation.
- Beta reader – a volunteer who reads a work of fanfiction and provides feedback before it is published to a fanfiction site.
- Cannon – elements that are true to a piece of original fiction rather than created in fanfiction.
- Fandom – the collection of fans of a particular piece of original fiction.
- Flames – users of websites, in this case, fanfiction websites, that intentionally cry to anger other users with criticism.
- One-shot – a short piece of fanfiction that is only one chapter.
- Original Character (OC) – a character in a fanfiction piece that is the creation of the fanfiction writer, not a character from the original fiction from which the fanfiction is created. This character usually interacts with the characters from the original fiction.
- Original Fiction- The fictitious work about which fanfiction writers create stories. This is a work in which the world and characters are the author’s own, not borrowed from another piece of art. Fanfiction writers may also write original fiction that are set in their own worlds with their own characters rather than others’ worlds or characters.
- Shipping – the act of desiring to see a relationship between two characters.
- Pairing- a couple in a romantic relationship, either realized in the original fiction or created in fanfiction. Fanfiction readers will often seek out fanfiction about a particular pairing of characters about which they want to read.
- Songfic – a fanfiction that incorporates or follows the storyline of a song while using the characters and/or world of another original work of fiction.
- Tumblr – a social media site where users can post or reblog others’ posts. This site is heavily used by fans as there are several user profiles devoted to being fanblogs with art, fiction, and news about a piece of original fiction.