The Epistemic potential in creative fandom projects
Analysis of argumentative processes in fan theories
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https://doi.org/10.47553/rifop.v97i36.3.96673Abstract
This paper focuses on the processes of knowledge construction and social interaction generated around literate practices linked to virtual communities. The hypertextual projects developed by users in these spaces put into operation complex creative, inferential and argumentative strategies that favor the development of creativity and critical thinking of their members. Focusing attention on fan theories, the research has allowed categorizing, defining and characterizing these original hermeneutic proposals made available to the community of followers (fandom) to be evaluated and debated. To this end, a study combining netnographic methodologies and discourse analysis has been carried out. The descriptive examination of these creative products has been carried out following the following variables: pragmatic aspects, context of argumentation and structural aspects (internal structure, types of arguments and conclusion or thesis reached). The results show the existence of three types of fan theories (predictive, explanatory and alternative) which are based on the prioritization of different argumentative mechanisms and creative dimensions. Predictive theories are personal interpretations based on subjective arguments and the establishment of connections between the text and the users' personal experience; explanatory theories are original theories supported by various critical and analytical arguments with precise references to the canon and paratextual elements; and alternative theories are characterized by their hypertextual and creative nature. It is concluded that an educational approach oriented to the development of critical and creative thinking should conceive hypertextual and virtual-based argumentative processes as a situated discursive practice.
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