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Fanny Barnabé is a postdoctoral researcher at the CRIDS / NaDI of the University of Namur and she is a founding member of the Liège Game Lab.
Her research focuses on video game narration (to which she devoted the book Narration and Video Game: For an Exploration of Fictional Universes), on the different forms of détournement (or remix) of video games (topic of her PhD dissertation), on video game tutorials (that she studied during her mandate as an FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Liège, Belgium) and on humor and irony in video game streaming on Twitch.tv. She also studied video game paratext during a one-year research stay at the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies in Kyoto (Japan), under the supervision of Professor Hiroshi Yoshida. In 2021-2022, she was a lecturer-researcher at the MNSHS lab ("Digital Methods for Humanities and Social Sciences") of the computer school Epitech in France.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Language and Literature, Rhetoric of video game diversion The case of Pokémon, Université de Liège
Award Date: 11 Jul 2017
External positions
Coordinator of the certificate "Working with videogame culture", Université de Liège
1 Sept 2022 → 31 Aug 2023
Keywords
- Medias
- Platforms
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DREAMER: Digital Readiness Enablers in ARGs as Media Education Reinforcement
Henry, J. (PI), Vanderose, B. (CoPI), Devroey, X. (CoPI), Barnabé, F. (CoPI) & Boraita, F. (CoPI)
14/11/25 → 15/11/26
Project: Research
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Di-Fic: Enhancing Digital Citizenship education through Audiovisual Fiction?
Simonofski, A. (PI), Vanderose, B. (CoPI), Biemar, S. (CoPI), Vanmeerhaeghe, S. (CoPI), Collard, A.-S. (CoPI), Barnabé, F. (CoPI), Roekens, A. (CoPI) & Gabriel, J.-B. (CoPI)
1/09/25 → 31/08/30
Project: Research
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D.A.I.P.C.: The DAI Personal Computer: A Platform Study Rooted in Amateur Cultures
Hurel, P.-Y. (PI) & Barnabé, F. (Supervisor)
1/02/27 → 30/01/30
Project: Research
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« Les modos je baise vos mères 😊 ». Scénographies de la toxicité sur Twitch : le Tribunal des bannis
Barnabé, F., 2024, In: Questions de communication. 46Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Platform of Serious Video Games Co-built for the General Interest
Laforge, B., Planques, T., Delcourt, F. & Barnabé, F., 2024, Proceedings of the European Conference on Games Based Learning 2024. 1 ed. Vol. 18. p. 534-540 7 p. (Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning).Research output: Contribution in Book/Catalog/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Détournement
Barnabé, F., 2024, Dictionnaire théorique du jeu. PUN-ErèsResearch output: Contribution in Book/Catalog/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Fonctions de l’échec dans le streaming de jeu vidéo: Adversité ludique, esthétique du glitch et art de la mise en scène chez HortyUnderscore
Translated title of the contribution :Functions of Failure in Video Game Streaming: Playful Adversity, Glitch Aesthetics and the Art of Staging by HortyUnderscore Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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From Home to Stage: How Speedrunners Negotiate Performance, Relation to the Audience, and Spectacle in Live-Streaming Speedrun Marathons
Bernard, S. & Barnabé, F., 2024, Live Performance and Video Games: Inspirations, Appropriations and Mutual Transfers. Dreifuss, R., Hagemann, S. & Pluta, I. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 195-215Research output: Contribution in Book/Catalog/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Open Access
Prizes
Activities
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Midi du CRIDS: La recherche de la vérité en temps de crise
Barnabé, F. (Contributor)
7 Oct 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Public space in the era of platformization: the case of Twitch
Barnabé, F. (Contributor)
16 Sept 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation to a Symposium, a study Day
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Toxicité, humour et second degré dans le contexte du jeu mis en spectacle sur Twitch
Barnabé, F. (Contributor)
2 Dec 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Humour et toxicité sur Twitch : reconfigurations de la notion de second degré à travers le format du « tribunal des bannis »
Barnabé, F. (Contributor)
11 Dec 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Comment le speedrun déforme les jeux vidéo
Barnabé, F. (Contributor), Bernard, S. (Contributor), Friche, L. (Contributor), Giner, E. (Contributor) & Synahel (Contributor)
1 Nov 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Festival/Exhibition