Wikis, websites designed for the communal creation of media content, have previously been theorized using the work of Levy (1997) as knowledge communities. In this conception, wikis are seen as storehouses of data that communities can use to organize and explicate their encyclopedic “communal intelligence.” In this paper, I expand on Levy’s argument to examine the narratological possibilities of wikis. Using as examples fan-created wikis for the cult television shows Lost and Heroes, I show that these media-based wikis highlight the fan community’s interactive construction of a narratological database. Using the interactivity omnipresent in wikis, fans articulate a new conception of narrative construction, a conception I term “narractivity.”
2021. Mechanisms for Interpretative Cooperation: Fan Theories in Virtual Communities. Frontiers in Psychology 12
Booth, Paul
2012. The Television Social Network: Exploring TV Characters. Communication Studies 63:3 ► pp. 309 ff.
Buchholz, Laura Daniel
2018. Reconstructing LOST: Connecting storyworld geography to narrative comprehension in online Wiki communities. Frontiers of Narrative Studies 4:2 ► pp. 248 ff.
Elwell, J Sage
2014. The transmediated self. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 20:2 ► pp. 233 ff.
Letak, Abigail M.
2022. The Promise of Sociology of Television: Investigating the Potential of Phenomenological Approaches. Sociological Forum 37:2 ► pp. 581 ff.
McEvoy-Levy, Siobhan
2018. Katniss in Fallujah: War Stories, Post-War, and Post-Sovereign Peace in Fan Fiction. In Peace and Resistance in Youth Cultures, ► pp. 265 ff.
McEvoy-Levy, Siobhan
2018. Reading Popular Culture for Peace: Theoretical Foundations. In Peace and Resistance in Youth Cultures, ► pp. 27 ff.
Padgett, Elizabeth R. & Jen Scott Curwood
2016. A Figment of Their Imagination. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 59:4 ► pp. 397 ff.
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