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The visibility of Chinese game localizers on Gcores: Personal branding, networking, business collaboration, and game distribution

Chen, Menghan; (2024) The visibility of Chinese game localizers on Gcores: Personal branding, networking, business collaboration, and game distribution. L10N Journal , 3 (1) pp. 6-32. Green open access

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Abstract

The study aims to shed light on the content-sharing activities of Chinese game localizers on Gcores ( 机核 ), a Chinese game medium. Two main research questions are discussed. First, what are the characteristics of online content sharing by game localizers about game localization? Second, what implications can these sharing activities bring to the theories of the visibility of translators? On the one hand, through netnography and practice-led research, the researcher, as a content creator on Gcores, introduces the process and features of online content sharing. On the other hand, through content and discourse analysis of the shared information, as well as the comments posted by the online audience, the implications of sharing are further investigated, including personal branding, networking, business collaboration, and game distribution. The findings shed light on the interconnection between game localization, the visibility of translators, the game community, and media communication.

Type: Article
Title: The visibility of Chinese game localizers on Gcores: Personal branding, networking, business collaboration, and game distribution
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://l10njournal.net/index.php/home/article/vie...
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright (c) 2024 Dody M. H. Chen. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Keywords: Game localization, Chinese game localizers, translator's visibility, social media, Gcores
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10202797
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