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The Practice And Evolution Of Video Game Translation: Expanding The Definition Of Translation, Elizabeth Bushouse
The Practice And Evolution Of Video Game Translation: Expanding The Definition Of Translation, Elizabeth Bushouse
Masters Theses
This paper looks at the practice and history of video game translation, with the goal of expanding the definition of translation. Video game translation is a complex process that incorporates a number of aspects from other types of translation, such as literary, audiovisual, and software translation, to form a dynamic whole. As a new medium, video games also present their own challenges to translation in the form of interactivity, technology, non-textual and extra-textual elements, audience involvement, and new business practices. Even though video games are a relatively new medium, the practice of translating them has undergone drastic transformations over the …
Fighting For Inclusion: The Origin Of Gay Liberation At The University Of Michigan, Eric Denby
Fighting For Inclusion: The Origin Of Gay Liberation At The University Of Michigan, Eric Denby
Masters Theses
The 1960s and 1970s were decades of turbulence, militancy, and unrest in America. The post-World War II boom in consumerism and consumption made way for a new post-materialist societal ethos, one that looked past the American dream of home ownership and material wealth. Many citizens were now concerned with social and economic equality, justice for all people of the world, and a restructuring of the capitalist system itself. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan was a hotbed of student activism. As an early headquarters for the Students for a Democratic Society, a …