I planned out an intervention on inviting stakeholders from the fandom community to draw their first impression of a fanfic creator, and then invite stakeholders from the original writing community to do the exact same thing.

Stakeholders from the Fandom Community:

I didn’t plan this intervention as well as I had hoped for, asking people to draw on a small canva page was less fruitful than simply asking questions on Reddit.

My stakeholders more likely chose to ask questions instead of participating in my intervention, which only meant that I hadn’t communicated in a clear way.

I decided to go back to researching for the link between fanfiction, participatory culture and convergence media. Because this intervention to me still seemed forced out, like I was trying to do an intervention for the sake of doing an intervention, but it was better to do it and regret it rather than not do it and regret it.

Comparatively, stakeholders from the original writing community had a similar result.

in Subreddit Fanfiction: out of the 22 people that entered the canva page, only 3 left drawings.

in Subreddit Writing(for Original Writers), 5 people joined and only 1 person left a drawing.

REFLECTIONS & LEARNINGS: This intervention was not planned out at all. I had acted out of haste and had not used any methodology to help me gather useful feedback. But it was better than doing nothing at all.

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGOsUKtHpk/0VEWu594fdsDSLaH4hgrVA/edit

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGOvIkcV_Q/NATKT3RMoCzo0BIeq7u_AQ/edit

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT: I had done case studies on fanfiction before the course but I hadn’t thought of pre-practising my means of communication. For my next intervention I needed to find a way to measure the change by gathering feedback before and after the stakeholders see the intervention and make sure that it is easy for them to receive feedback.