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Henry Jenkins - fandom blog tasks

OSP: Learner response

Videogames: Horizon Forbidden West - Audience and Industry

Videogames: Horizon Forbidden West - Language & Representations

Videogames: Women in videogames & Further feminist theory

Video games: The Sims Freeplay - Language and Representations 

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