Abstract
In this chapter, Walsh argues that fan agency continues to evolve through the ever-changing medium of the Internet. Drawing from critical examinations of fan engagement with the Harry Potter storyworld in J. K. Rowling’s online extension of that storyworld, Pottermore, Walsh examines the Twitter account “Hamilton in Sunnydale” to argue that the new fan-created spaces bringing together texts and storyworlds that have nothing to do with each other provide an environment for enriching both the original source texts and the fan engagement with those texts. This enrichment also provides fans with greater narrative agency as the new texts they create and engage with have different, sometimes deeper, meanings.
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Stein and Busse, “Limit Play,” 193.
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Ibid., 196.
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Williams, “Ontological Security, Authorship, and Resurrection,” 145.
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Stein and Busse, “Limit Play,” 193.
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Choo, “Writing Through Visual Acts of Reading,” 169.
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Kim Sangmi, Kim Seong-Gyu, Jeon Yoonsin, Jun Soojin, and Kim Jinwoo, “Appropriate or Remix? The Effects of Social Recognition and Psychological Ownership on Intention to Share in Online Communities,” 120.
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Stein and Busse, “Limit Play,” 197.
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Hamilton in Sunnydale (@SunnydaleHam), “Immigrants Are Heroes,” Twitter, September 17, 2017, https://twitter.com/SunnydaleHam/status/905910331255341056.
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Hamilton in Sunnydale (@SunnydaleHam), “There’s a Little Surprise Before Supper and It Cannot Wait,” Twitter, August 4, 2017, https://twitter.com/SunnydaleHam/status/893556982052827136.
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Sangmi, Seong-Gyu, Yoonsin, Soojin, and Jinwoo, “Appropriate or Remix? The Effects of Social Recognition and Psychological Ownership on Intention to Share in Online Communities,” 100.
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Stein and Busse, “Limit Play,” 202.
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Dann, “Only Half the Story,” 142.
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Sangmi, Seong-Gyu, Yoonsin, Soojin, and Jinwoo, “Appropriate or Remix?” 100.
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Walsh, K. (2019). History Has Its Eyes on the Greatest Hellmouth in the World: Transmedia, Hint Fiction, and Mashup Memes. In: Kitchens, J., Hawk, J. (eds) Transmediating the Whedonverse(s). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24616-7_3
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