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Translation Flows: Exploring networks of people, processes and products
Edited by Ilse Feinauer, Amanda Marais and Marius Swart
[Benjamins Translation Library 163] 2023
► pp. 107–128

Chapter 6
Recirculated, recontextualized, reworked

Community-driven video game fan translation practices in Turkey

| Ege University

This chapter explores non-commercial translation practices in video games with an expired shelf life in Turkey. Pursuant to the paratextual analysis of fan material that contextualizes the game or localization process, this chapter concludes that the non-professional translators translate, circulate and recontextualize the games regardless of their commercial value and that it is their gaming capital that drives this specific form of circulation.

Keywords: game localization, fan paratexts, gaming capital, virtual communities, fan productivity, translation sociology
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Theorizing non-professional localization practices
  • Gaming capital: Paratextualizing the making of non-professional translation practice
  • Oyunceviri community: Empowerment, gaming capital and paratextual production
  • Reframing paratexts: Documenting histories of production
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 9 October 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.163.06kar
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2011 Ubisoft Montreal.
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2010 EA Sports
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1997 Running with Scissors
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2010 Aspyr
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2001 DreamWorks Interactive
The Tomb Raider I
1996 Core Design
The Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft
1998 Core Design