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Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Informa UK Limited  

DOI： 10.1080/02773945.2021.1972135

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

Despite frequent reference in academic and fan work to the video game genre known as JRPG (Japanese role-playing game), little critical scholarship has been dedicated to understanding how to conceptualize the genre. Frequently, JRPGs are framed as a cultural curiosity, with the “J” operating as a cultural appendix to established and well-defined genre of RPGs. The coordination between government and industry central to soft power, however, offers insight into the construction of the genre by highlighting the role the market plays in promoting culture. Drawing from representations of and discourse about gender in the MEXT’s Cool Japan campaign, this paper argues that JRPGs should be framed as one elemental part of a larger creative ecology that comes to define Japan and its culture overseas.

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

Anime fandom has been a fairly constant subject in fan scholarship, although only recently have conversations about fan subbing begun to circulate. As useful as those conversations are, none have directly dealt either with the mechanisms of fan subbing, particularly the use of linear notes, as a practice or with how these subs intersect with the flows of subcultural capital. Fan subbing, both as a productive and a consumptive practice, plays a small but influential part in subcultural capital. Engagement with media is a compositional element of such capital in this community.

DOI： 10.3983/twc.2014.0512

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Language：English   Publishing type：Doctoral thesis  

The democratization of new media technologies, particularly the software tools though which “content” can be manipulated, has invited a seemingly vast array of modes through which people can express themselves. Conversations in fan studies, for example, cite the novel ways in which new media allow fans to alter texts in the expression of their subcultural needs, while theorizations of media often reverse the paradigm by arguing how advances in technology will revolutionize how we interact with, and hence, know the world. Frequently overlooked are the ways in which these technologies and communities co-construct engagement and the extent to which this engagement spurs novel ways of interaction.
This dissertation addresses these problems by theorizing the role of the medium as a ludic negotiation between text and fan, informed—but not determined—by the rules and strictures that construct both these discrete media artifacts and the communities in which these texts circulate. Nowhere are these concerns more evident than in the subcultural realm of anime fan translations, where an eclectic blend of tech-savvy, Japanese language proficient, culturally competent individuals from different backgrounds converge to form groups who have self-nominated themselves to spread anime through timely, efficient, and accurate translations. To be successful, they must navigate multiple linguistic and cultural currents as they move between Japanese and their target language, deftly avoid running aground on the shores that structure the boundaries of container media, all the while remaining mindful of ideological and subcultural discursive shoals as they scan the horizon for alternate paths to their translation goal. These fan translators are, to be less dramatic, limited in the types of translations they can provide by the formal properties of the selected medium, but these limitations should be conceived as a generative process motivating translators to seek novel ways of engagement with the medium to meet both their translation needs and the needs of the communities in which their translations circulate.

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Continuum  

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Publisher：Transformative Works and Cultures  

Review of Jamie Chambers. Supernatural role playing game. Williams Bay, WI: Margaret Weis Productions, 2009. Hardcover, $39.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1931567497.

DOI： 10.3983/twc.2010.0191

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Presentation type：Oral presentation (invited, special)  

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Event date： 13 4 2022 - 16 4 2022

Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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Event date： 18 11 2021 - 21 11 2021

Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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Event date： 2 6 2021 - 6 6 2021

Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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Event date： 26 10 2020 - 17 11 2020

Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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Author：Other 

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Author：Myself 

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