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As collaborative translation has undergone remarkable transformations due to the increasing dominance of the Internet and social media, new theoretical perspectives such as translaboration and online collaborative translation have been proposed to redefine changing collaborative translation trends. Taking these two notions as points of departure, the present study focuses on the Steam Translation Server (STS) as a volunteer platform and investigates the role of translaboration and online collaborative translation in video game localisation (VGL). To this end, an online survey was carried out to analyse volunteer STS translators’ individual and collaborative VGL experiences. Later, their activities were classified based on existing online collaborative translation models.
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Sarıgül, S. (2023). Online Translaboration in Video Game Localisation. In: Zwischenberger, C., Alfer, A. (eds) Translaboration in Analogue and Digital Practice. Transkulturalität – Translation – Transfer, vol 57. Frank & Timme, Berlin. https://doi.org/10.57088/978-3-7329-9036-8_3
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