MMOGs and the Ecology of Fiction: Understanding LOTRO as Transmedial World [Abstract]
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In recent cultural history, certain imaginary universes have had a broad and highly engaging appeal for their audiences. The worlds of Middle Earth, Star Wars, The Matrix, or Final Fantasy are all examples of powerful universes which have continued to live on in a number of different instantiations and fan fictions produced across a variety of media platforms. In order to describe this phenomenon, we have earlier proposed the concept of transmedial worlds (Klastrup/Tosca, 2004), and a general analytical framework, with which to approach these.
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