Fan culture is thriving in Westeros. Although HBO’s Game of Thrones has ended, fans will ensure that the show lives on (and changes) across multimedia platforms, long into the future.
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Even in this fantasy world, geological processes like tectonic plate movement, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions would have built the mountains, carved the rivers, and created vast oceans.
Vudu, Apple TV+, Disney +, NBC Universal: there’s going to be a lot of blood on the carpet.
There’s a big difference between rehoming and abandonment.
The young assassin and wannabe knight stand in the background but if their medieval influences are anything to go by, they could end up leading the final battle.
The original origins of some key characters names might give hints to their fates in Game of Thrones.
We’ve watched the youngest Stark daughter grow from a tomboy to a trained killer. Now she’s come into her own.
For HBO, online piracy is not the huge issue it represents for the platforms that screen its content.
Human civilisation is threatened by long-dead organisms, whether as White Walkers or petrol.
For all its queer characters, Westeros is a gender binary world.
The vast majority of stories told in movies, in books and on television conclude with happy endings – and this has real-world political consequences.
Facial recognition is a crucial skill, but difficult to test accurately. Researchers are taking advantage of the popularity of Game of Thrones to test the limits of our ability to identify a familiar face.
Before you attribute a trait to a famous ancestor like George Washington or Marie Antoinette, you might want to see how much DNA you actually share with these people. It’s not what you thought.
Our current golden age of TV storytelling is influenced by comic books, in particular, one writer: Chris Claremont pushed boundaries and gave audiences strong female leads and deeply involved dramas.
Films can be used to help understand international relations concepts.
The HBO series can tell us a lot about how we view the Medieval world.
Expectations were high for the latest project from the creator of The Simpsons.
It is time we talked about one of the most unsung motifs in American fiction.
Cloud services became popular due to the benefits they can offer to users, but their adoption can be opposed by IT departments.
Linguist Alison Long helped translate a best-selling novel into the latest BBC television drama.
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Senior Teaching Fellow, Management Science & Innovation, UCL
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Professor of Medieval Literature and English Literature, Bangor University
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Professor and Tutorial Fellow in English, University of Oxford
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Senior lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University
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Associate Professor of Narratology, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, Nottingham Trent University
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PhD Candidate, Early Modern History, The University of Queensland
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Teaching Fellow in Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Canterbury
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Philosophy at the ANU, Australian National University
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Professor and Head of Epigenetics and Neural Plasticity, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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University of Newcastle
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Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
