Tables, Figures, and Appendices

Fanfiction Literacy Experience Rhizome

Appendix A: Fanfiction.net Sorting Tool

Appendix B: Recruitment Message

Hello!

My name is Brooke Bianchi-Pennington, and I’m pursuing a Ph.D. in Literacy Studies. For my dissertation, I’m studying fanfiction about young adult literature. Specifically, I’m examining how identity, the Throne of Glass series, and fanfiction come together to create a new literary and artistic form.

I’ve contacted you because you have written fanfiction about Throne of Glass, and I would love the opportunity to get your input on your experience with fanfiction.net, Throne of Glass, and fanfiction in general.

I’ve put together a 30 minute questionnaire. If you are 18-25 and are interested in sharing your experience with me, I invite you to read through the statement of consent on this questionnaire and answer away!

You can find the survey on my fanfiction.net profile: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4504620/bbp1989

Thank you for your contribution to my research and the world’s knowledge about how incredible fanfiction is!

Brooke Bianchi-Pennington

University of Tennessee Children's and Young Adult Literature Doctoral Candidate

msmit159@vols.utk.edu

Appendix C: Initial Questionnaire

Appendix D: List of Final Codes

Adolescent-Fanfiction

• Access
  • Exact Needs
  • Quality
• Education
  • Creating Original Fiction
  • Improved Reading
  • Improved Writing
• Expression
  • Control and Freedom
  • Original Characters
  • Remix
  • Self-insertion
• Immersion
  • Fill-in-gaps
  • More Time
• Interaction
  • Authors
  • Readers
• Pleasure
  • Expressing Love
  • Fun

Book-Adolescent

• Connection
  • Author Connection
  • Character Connection
  • Social Connection
• Engagement
  • Engaged with Character
  • Engaged with Fantasy Genre
  • Engaged with Plot
  • Engaged with Style
  • Engaged with Progressive Themes

Book–Fanfiction

• Characters
• Fandom
  • Input
  • Output
• Genre
  • Fantasy
  • Ongoing Series
  • Vast World
• Plot
  • Foreshadowing or Twists
  • Harsh of Sad Plot
• Style
  • Emulating
  • POV