TED: The creativity and community behind fanfiction | Cecilia Aragon

The speaker shares her journey from a lonely Latina girl to a data science professor, inspired by fanfiction. She discusses how fanfiction communities provide a supportive environment for young writers, especially those from marginalized groups. Through research, she found that fanfiction helps improve writing skills through distributed mentoring. The speaker suggests integrating fanfiction into formal education to enhance students' writing abilities.

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