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Wikia: Between Documentary Simulacra And Documented Fictions, Caroline Courbières, Sabine Roux
Wikia: Between Documentary Simulacra And Documented Fictions, Caroline Courbières, Sabine Roux
Proceedings from the Document Academy
Wikis are digital community spaces that have attracted high traffic but virtually no study as socio-communicational platforms. These platforms offer individuals the possibility of engaging in unique writing activities by defining a distinct material configuration and imposing a protocol of enunciation. Wikis are platforms developed through the contributions of anyone, and constitute collaborative encyclopedias dedicated to a cultural topic. This article more specifically examines the Harry Potter Wiki, which is devoted to the literary universe of J.K. Rowling. Our semio-communicational analysis concerns the structure, the authors and the contents of the French and Anglo-Saxon versions of this wiki. First we …