OTAKUS AND KPOPPERS: CARTOGRAPHING YOUNG WRITERS IN FANDOMS
cartography, youth, informal learning, fanfics, fan study
This cartography investigated literary creation processes of young people who become writers while living in digital communities of fans (fandoms), known among them as otakus, admirers of cultural content from Japan, and kpoppers or kapopeiros, appreciators of the entertainment culture of South Korea called kpop. I was touched by the production model of this type of stories because it contains some textual elements that are different from the way institutionalized writing is elaborated in the Brazilian school, as well as the growth in the circulation of cultural content produced in the Far East, especially unfolded in fan fictions. (fanfics), stories based on an original work. I argued that these creativity processes are open gates to curiosity and the unusual, factors that compel the search for more knowledge and, in the field of education, even possible to break with conceptions that perceive the young person as becoming an adult, for the which does not fit the pedagogical work with fantasy during youth learning. Among the results found, it was possible to detect that the fables are created mainly as tactics for the expansion of personal relationships and mutual help, being unusual to find records of conflicts and disagreements in the researched interactions, commonplace postures that go on modeling another type of coexistence and of collective ethics, with the power to, who knows, have repercussions on life outside the fandoms.