{{Short description|Type of fan fiction}} {{Refimprove|date=May 2019|bot=noref (GreenC bot)}} A '''webnovela''' or '''foronovela''' is a type of fan fiction.<ref>{{Citation |last=Eleá |first=Ilana |title=Fanfiction and Webnovelas |date=2011 |work=The Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Media |pages=71–87 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118114254.ch5 |access-date=2025-06-16 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781118114254.ch5 |isbn=978-1-118-11425-4|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=ajb2012>{{Cite journal |last=López‐Pumarejo |first=Tomás A. |date=2012-01-01 |editor-last=J. Pisani |editor-first=Michael |editor2-last=A. Perez‐Batres |editor2-first=Luis |title=The webnovela and immigrants in the United States |url=https://doi.org/10.1108/19355181211217634 |journal=American Journal of Business |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=40–57 |doi=10.1108/19355181211217634 |issn=1935-5181 |quote=''Webnovelas'' are the online version of ''telenovelas''. They consist of 15 five-minute episodes, and feature interactive fare such as contests, behind-the-scene material and blogging. They share key narrative and thematic conventions and a star system with ''telenovelas'', the wildly popular Latin American version of the American soap opera. .... ''Webnovelas'' are, in contrast, a genre that is open enough to welcome user collaboration and use this collaboration as marketing intelligence. This is particularly true with the fan fiction or ''foronovela'' that ''Wikipedia'' mistakenly refers to as ''webnovela''.|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The term "webnovela" or "web novel" adapts the word "telenovela" for web-based fan fiction. They are written and read primarily in Latin American and European countries.
They are often written like soap operas and can involve fans of a particular serial or telenovela creating a story based on that series' characters. The term "webnovela" is also used to refer to the hosting by Univision of recorded telenovelas online.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Piñón |first=Juan |date=2014-07-03 |title=Webnovelas: Branding Interactivity in Hispanic TV |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2014.924521 |journal=Popular Communication |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=123–138 |doi=10.1080/15405702.2014.924521 |issn=1540-5702|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=ajb2012/>
==Cyberseries== {{Unsourced section|date=June 2025}} A variation of the webnovela is the ''cyberserie''. The cyberserie are more like North American series. They have seasons, and are composed usually of Anglo-Saxon actors.
== See also == * Web series * Original net animation
== References == {{reflist}}
Category:Webnovelas Category:Telenovelas Category:New media Category:Internet-based works Category:Multimedia