Digital pitchforks and virtual torches: Fan responses to the Mass Effect news debacle

Convergence

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 287-305

  Dutton, Nathan ^a   Consalvo, Mia ^b   Harper, Todd ^c  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Singapore MIT GAMBIT Game Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

fandom; fans; Fox News; internet; mass effect; online; videogames

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052737381     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354856511407802     Document Type: Review

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