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- Title
Surrendering authorial agency and practicing transindividualism in Tumblr's role-play communities.
- Authors
Howard, K. Shannon
- Abstract
The writer who engages in acts of online role-play or make-believe is often thought to promote him or herself as an individual agent. However, when members of Tumblr's role-play communities engage in play, they create scenes together that prompt surrender of authorial agency. In doing so, they engage in transindividual work, which allows them to work across, among, and between other entities until the boundaries of the self become porous rather than fixed.
- Subjects
MICROBLOGS; TUMBLR (Web resource); VIDEO games; ELECTRONIC games; INTERNET entertainment
- Publication
Transformative Works & Cultures, 2017, Vol 25, p1
- ISSN
1941-2258
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3983/twc.2017.01020