These are sort of the expanded version of my class lecture notes. I’ll be tinkering with it after I re-read all the readings. (Thanks to T.L. Taylor, Tom Boellstorff, and especially Teri Silvio and a whole bunch of literature I am not explicitly citing here) 1) NOT IMMERSIVE. The Immersive fantasy would be first person: [...]
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