The aim for this study is to investigate how the website archiveofourown.org dedicates itself to archiving and organizing fanfiction. This study aims to find answers for how archiveofourown makes fanfiction accessible for the fanfiction community, both in the present time and in its function as an archive. Building from Derrida's thoughts about how power control what is archived and therefore the exclusion from archives is a threat to de-mocracy. Paired with the idea from De Kosnik about fanfiction archives archiving a part of media that does not exist this essay will argue for the importance of the free-form tagging of meta-data in correlation to user-uploaded fanfiction on www.archiveofourown.org and the archiving of said meta-data as well as fanfiction. The thesis also discusses the importance for fandom-community to own their archives due to censorship and accessibility. In this thesis the concept of gender as a performative discourse is important to the understanding of women's labour in fanfiction communities.Material for this study have been gathered from the website archiveofourown.org during the spring of 2020. By doing a close reading of the material published by the site and the users the study presents how the tagging sys-tem works and analyses the findings with help of previous research. The results of this study show that the free form tagging system of metadata is important for the fanfiction community. By allowing this form of tagging the culture of the online space can be preserved. This study finds that most producers and consumers of fanfic-tion identify as female, and therefore argues that the use of volunteer work on a site with material by and for female is problematic due to the issue that feminine coded values, like organizing and flexibility, suggests that the work is less technical and such less masculine than it would otherwise be perceived.According to the findings of this study the tagging systems of metadata has an important part in preserving internet history of those that may not have it preserved otherwise. It is also preserving part of other internet cultures such as the tagging culture on websites like tumblr.com. This is a two-year master's thesis in archival science. The aim for this study is to investigate how the website archiveofourown.org dedicates itself to archiving and organizing fanfiction. This study aims to find answers for how archiveofourown makes fanfiction accessible for the fanfiction community, both in the present time and in its function as an archive. Building from Derrida’s thoughts about how power control what is archived and therefore the exclusion from archives is a threat to democracy. Paired with the idea from De Kosnik about fanfiction archives archiving a part of media that does not exist this essay will argue for the importance of the free-form tagging of meta-data in correlation to user-uploaded fanfiction on www.archiveofourown.org and the archiving of said meta-data as well as fanfiction. The thesis also discusses the importance for fandom-community to own their archives due to censorship and accessibility. In this thesis the concept of gender as a performative discourse is important to the understanding of women’s labour in fanfiction communities. Material for this study have been gathered from the website archiveofourown.org during the spring of 2020. By doing a close reading of the material published by the site and the users the study presents how the tagging system works and analyses the findings with help of previous research. The results of this study show that the free form tagging system of metadata is important for the fanfiction community. By allowing this form of tagging the culture of the online space can be preserved. This study finds that most producers and consumers of fanfiction identify as female, and therefore argues that the use of volunteer work on a site with material by and for female is problematic due to the issue that feminine coded values, like organizing and flexibility, suggests that the work is less technical and such less masculine than it would otherwise be perceived. According to the findings of this study the tagging systems of metadata has an important part in preserving internet history of those that may not have it preserved otherwise. It is also preserving part of other internet cultures such as the tagging culture on websites like tumblr.com. This is a two-year master’s thesis in archival science.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-415727 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Fältskog, Natalia |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | Uppsatser inom arkivvetenskap, 1651-6087 ; 180 |
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