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Fleeing the Operator: The User Experience and Participation in Marble Hornets (2009-2014)

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2014)

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The found-footage YouTube series Marble Hornets (2009-2014) uses two YouTube channels and a Twitter account to create a transmediated Alternate Reality Game (ARG) experience, allowing users to communicate directly with both the diegetic characters and each other. While it is not revolutionary in how it approaches the use of ARG elements in its narrative, it marks a starting point in the creation of a definitive model for this mode of storytelling.

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  1. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Devin Hartley

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  1. Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, BLK AS6 #3-22, 11 Computng Drive, 117416, Singapore, Singapore

    Alex Mitchell

  2. NYU Game Center, 2 Metrotech Center, New York University, Room 854, 11201, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Clara Fernández-Vara

  3. School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Menntavegur 1, Nauthólsvik, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland

    David Thue

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Hartley, D. (2014). Fleeing the Operator: The User Experience and Participation in Marble Hornets (2009-2014). In: Mitchell, A., Fernández-Vara, C., Thue, D. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8832. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12337-0_15

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