alternate reality games

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When we think about folklore and urban legends, generally we don't imagine that the boundaries can be drawn merely at the edge of a city or even a state.  How ambitious can a folklore legend be, when it supposes that the boundaries of its telling are not merely confined to our ...

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Latest Ong’s Hat: Incunabula eBooks- Free Edition The latest Ong’s Hat: Incunabula eBooks for your Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, Adobe Dimensions, and computer. Some of these books are free. Kindle ePub Other places to get it: Smashwords (multiple formats), Archive.org (ePub). Torrets of ePub and Kindle: Demonoid, Pirate Bay, ConCen Coming soon: Amazon, Barnes and [...]

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Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong’s Hat Reviewed by The Journal of Folklore Research

From The Journal of Folklore Research Reviewed by David J. Puglia, The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg In a day and age when legends are as likely to be transmitted online as they are face-to-face, folklorists have begun assessing how our established concepts apply to the digital realm. The convergence of different forms of media has [...]

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The Surprising Online Life of Legends

A very interesting article/review of Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong’s Hat. From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Now, from the you-can-learn-something-new-every-day files, comes Michael Kinsella’s Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong’s Hat. Read it here: http://chronicle.com/blogs/pageview/the-surprising-online-life-of-legends/29221 From the article: The response of Joseph Matheny to Legend-Tripping Online suggests [...]

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Factoid of the Day: Ong’s Hat

I love fictional places and I love when fiction is partially rooted in reality. For that reason, one of my favorite fictional places is the town of Ong’s Hat. It is especially interesting because it is also a “real” ghost town in the New Jersey Pine Barrens with its own folk history. The actual town [...]

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Site in French Version française Deutsch version Let’s be serious, let’s play! (5 / 5): The game is the weapon of subversion

The game war against the real On this new ideological spectrum, the alternate reality game (ARG) is proving a strategic piece. If the ARG seems to focus much of the game activists, not only because its structure allows the creation of products “independent” not too expensive (it can also be challenged when we see the [...]

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