Simulation and database society in Japanese role-playing game fandoms: Reading boys' love dōjinshi online
Japanese video games have been characterized as typifying contemporary postmodernity in the form of simulacra, both as a media form and in terms of their extensive localization for international markets, which creates user fantasies of Japaneseness that are not linked to an authentic or original Jap...
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Organization for Transformative Works
2013-03-01
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| Series: | Transformative Works and Cultures |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/433/360 |