RQ: How can I change the negative perceptions around slash fiction and its communities?

Those Negative Perceptions:

-That it’s written by women for women…No it’s not.

-That it’s fetishizing gay relationships. Most people can separate fact from fiction.

-That it is unoriginal and infringes copyright. It is a legit form of participatory culture.

-How did you arrive at your question, and your research methodology/ies?

By doing interventions and interviews. Using the methodology narrative inquiry and evaluating on my own experience of reading and writing slash using the methodology autoethnography.

-Can you define your research methodologies, and their relationship to your question?

Narrative inquiry, autoethnography, archival research.

-Are you sufficiently aware of the context and existing state of understanding of your question within your field of inquiry?

I have a holistic view of it, but I need to investigate on how the….

-Have you given form to your question through the creation of suitable interventions and their subsequent iterations?

….Yes?

-Who has given professional feedback?

Leah Holmes, Henry Jenkins, Neil Gibson, Steve Penfold. The London LGBTQ centre.

-What other types of feedback have you received?

Critics. Original writers. People within the slash fandom.

-Have you incorporated the feedback you have received into the iterated model/s of your questions and interventions?

Not yet…doing that now.

-Have you researched in an ethical way?

Yes. No recordings of either visual or audio were recorded if the participant was uncomfortable with it.

-What has changed, as a result of your research?

My focal point. I agree a little bit with one of the critics where they said we should focus more on the stories in the middle.

-What next?

Archiving the stories in the middle and giving it a brand.

A PROJECT CHECKLIST
TO USE AS WE APPROACH THE END OF UNIT FOUR
and head for the outside world

1. Have I understood and deconstructed my own brief/question ? Yeah…
2. Do I understand the context /place of my work? Both as a “local” and as a “tourist”?Yeah, “local” as in autoethnographically, “tourist” as in holistically, as a researcher and connecting with researchers within the Transcultural Fandom.
3. Have I gained an understanding of the people in my stakeholder group? Their mindset, how they think and how they behave? Yes. But will need more EVIDENCE on that…
4. Have I identified opportunities for observation and field research? Have I recorded data / taken measurements / taken photos / sketched / observed / looked and felt? Yes, definitely. I have done action and primary research online and offline.
5. Have I engaged my user group or stakeholders in my project? Not quite ENGAGED……need to do that better. Currently still questioning my stakeholders rather than involving and engaging them. Idea: ChatGPT version of generating slash-fics that resonates a deeper building of the characters.
6. Have I incorporated desktop or secondary research? Yes…very challenging for me to juggle the logic of several key thinkers of the field.
7. Have sketching and brainstorming ideas and interventions helped me understand and answer my question? Not doing that enough,need to brainstorm a bit more.
8. Have I incorporated ‘principles’ into my work? Yes. No recordings of either visual or audio were recorded if the participant was uncomfortable with it.
9. Can I visualize and share my ideas? Currently having a very hard time doing that tbh…
10. Can I present my ideas and share my new knowledge?Currently having a very hard time doing that tbh…
11. Has prototyping informed my design process? Yeah, and iterating the prototypes.
12. Has testing informed the creative process (with users, allies and gatekeepers)?
13. Has feedback informed my creative process? Have I taken feedback onboard and developed my ideas…?
14. Have I built on my own cycle of iterative development?
15. Can I sell my idea?
    Can I talk about it to professionals?