By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth and Participatory Politics

Fiction / Narrative

Fiction or narrative storytelling can be a creative way to deal with political and social issues by imagining hypothetical scenarios or characters that illustrate a specific point. Fiction allows a wide range of freedom for the storyteller to experiment with different characters, situations, and outcomes. Often grounded in past experiences or present circumstances, fiction can present hybrid portraits of personality types or hypothetical futures. 

Additionally, fictional characters and stories within popular culture can often become powerful sites for community building. The Harry Potter Alliance for example is a strong example of storyworlds that become shared topics in which disparate groups can come together and start a conversation.  With many of the groups, the initial meaning of the stories are expanded or reinterpreted to provide deeper social value to inspiring, fantastical narratives. For example, ......... uses Superman as a example of the powerful potential of immigrants since he himself is an Alien immigrant from another planet.

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