@article{discovery10191835,
         journal = {International Journal of Cultural Studies},
           title = {'If it's held dear, it'll get pushed through': Transmedia narratives, play cultures, and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)},
            year = {2024},
           month = {April},
            note = {{\copyright} The Author(s) 2024. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).},
       publisher = {SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC},
        abstract = {Transmedia storytelling is a strategy adopted by media franchises and brands to create participatory story-worlds for their consumers; it incorporates a range of forms, actors, and texts, all of which have varying degrees of narrative authority in determining the events that occur. This article focuses on tabletop role-playing game Dungeons \& Dragons to show how play cultures in Singapore are shaped by transmedia storytelling techniques. In doing so, it makes two contributions to existing research: first, it shifts scholarly focus from game texts to player practice, showing how communities of play are created through players' emergent usage of transmedia storytelling techniques. Second, it describes a player practice of soft canon, which I theorise as an approach to shared world-making that prioritises the emotional resonance of narrative details over a positivist accounting of narrative events. The concept of soft canon reveals a new perspective on how communities create and sustain intersubjectively imagined worlds.},
          author = {Wee, Kellynn},
             url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13678779241244407}
}