Transformative (h)activism: Breast cancer awareness and the "World of Warcraft" Running of the Gnomes

Players of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (WoW) are accustomed to a transformative culture that appropriates off-line events and personas into virtual-world representations inside of the game. Following this culture, players have transformed an off-line event—th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lauren B. Collister
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Organization for Transformative Works 2017-09-01
Series:Transformative Works and Cultures
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.0990