Technology has enabled the rise of cyberliterature by making literary works easily accessible online through websites and digital formats. Cyberliterature encompasses all types of literary works available on the internet, including professional authors' works, fanfiction, and multimedia pieces combining literature with other art forms. Fanfiction in particular has grown tremendously through cyberliterature as a way for fans to imaginatively expand upon their favorite stories while also allowing new writers to hone their skills before creating original works. Some original authors may disapprove of manipulations of their stories, but fanfiction overall helps promote recognition and discussion of literary works online.

1. CONTEMPORARY, POPULAR
AND EMERGENT LITERATURE
NIKKA R. NACARIO
MR. MARCO MEDURAN

2. ASSESSMENT TASKS
• Create a comprehensive infographics or graphic organizer that
completely presents the definition, characteristics, types, purpose,
nature and essentials of cyberliterature and its subcategory fanfiction .
Include terms and brief definitions.
• Create a 200-250 word reflection about the article you read. Be
guided by the rubric below.

3. Did you mean Digital Literature ?
Digital Literature is a literature
created and presented by means of
computer technology.
These are presented mostly
in www, but also in CDs or a
computer hard drive.
Cyberliterature can be characterized by
certain computer-specific qualities:
• Multilinearity
• Lexias joined by links
• Linking a text with a multimedia
• Interactivity and etc.
What is Cyberliterature?
English Estonian
Hypertext Literature Küberkirjandus
…which indicates to the phenomenon’s
connection with technology, cyberspace, while
avoiding the limiting of different forms of
computer literature with the requirement of
hypertextuality, and has a wider meaning
Cyberliterature
3
Hyper text
literature and
cybertext
2
Non-professional
literary texts
available in the
Internet
1
All literary texts
available in the
Internet
Cyberliterature could therefore serve
as an umbrella term which could
tentatively be divided in three:
1. Prose or poetry texts available at
the home pages of professional
writers.
2. Includes fanfiction or blogs, text-
based role-playing games and
online novels.
3. Multimedia artefacts, merging
literature, visual arts, film, music

4. Fanfiction or also known as fanfic is a so-
called pseudo-sequel to a book, comic book,
anime, television series or a movie, which is
not created by professional writers but
amateur authors, i.e. fans
It is a specific subcategory
of cyberliterature and is one
of the most intriguing
peripheral phenomena in
online literature.
Fanfic characters are usually the same with
the original book, but some of the storyline
might be manipulated or continued with
additional storylines.
What is Fanfiction?
1967
Spockanalia
of Star
Trek
1930
Sherlock
Holmes
Literary
Society
1982
Net.startrek
1989-1992
World Wide
Web
History of
Fanfiction
1998
FanFiction.net
Categorizing Fanfiction
WAFF
(Warm and fuzzy feeling)
Light and easy to read
tales with happy
ending
Dark
Tales dealing with topics
like death, violence, or
betrayal
Lemon
Erotic fanfiction divided
into subcategories of
homoerotic fanfiction
(Slash, Yaoi, and Yuri)

5. 3 things I find interesting
about cyberliterature
2 questions I like to ask the
author of the article
regarding cyberliterature
1 idea that I will research
further (and why)
• How technology gave a
new medium or platform
for aspiring writers
• Fanfiction became a style
of writing and how it
boomed through years
• The benefits of
cyberliterature to reach
out to everyone around
the world.
• Are there some people who
wanted to or are against the
idea of fanfiction? Specially
those who originally created
those stories that was based
on?
• Are there serious cases of
plagiarism or copyright
between original authors
and fanfiction authors?
• How fanfiction really began
because the idea of creating
a new version of anything
and everything is just a
funny yet brilliant thing to do.
I mean, I am a reader and
sometimes I just do not like
the endings of stories and I
think that there should be
something more that can
happen. The idea just
wonders me. Though some
people feels offended. Of
course, what would you feel
if your work suddenly was
changed by someone.

6. Cyberliterature
Technology has been a huge help to us and made our lives convenient. Not only by communicating with other people, but
also in restoring information which serves as a backup for future purposes. It also became a platform for authors and writers
who only used paper and pen before, but because of technology, their works became digitalized – thus the birth of
cyberliterature.
With the help of computer technology, we do not have to go to bookstores to find physical books that we want. Just one
click in the world wide web, and boom, you can already read the book you want. It also became an opportunity for many
writers – amateur or professional – to publish books that would reach even more people around the world than they can reach
before by publishing physical books.
Cyberliterature became some sort of “heaven” by bookworms like me. Through internet I can read books and can access
them anytime and anywhere for free. Novels, films, music, fanfictions – name it.
Through computer technology, the rise of fanfic writing also became possible. Millions of fanfic versions of your favorite
novels can be accessed in the internet.

7. And because of that, more writers became a regular in cyberliterature world. Well, some people might be against the idea of
manipulating and adding elements in the storyline of their favorite novels, books, or anime, but truth be told that more people
enjoys the idea of fanfic as a way to satisfy their preferences in reading. But the good thing about fanfiction is that fanfic writers
give credits and even more recognition to the original authors of the books they based on. Originality plays a huge importance in
achieving recognition and fame.
One example is Natsuki Kizu, one of the Japanese fanfic authors or widely known for anime fans as “doujinshi mangaka”,
became famous for her works that were based on another famous original manga anime series “Haikyuu!!” by Haruichi
Furudate. Kizu’s works gave credits to Furudate’s work which made the Haikyuu!! Fandom even bigger. But when Kizu finally
released her own original work “Given”, that was time she was finally known for being one of the “Sensei’s” (master) of the
anime fandom.
And that is why for me, fanfiction is a stepping stone for aspiring writers to grow and unleash their skills in storywriting.