Playing Along Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance

Name: Playing Along Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance
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ISBN: 9780199753468

ISBN-10: 0199753466

ISBN-13: 9780199753468

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kiri Miller

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Why don'tGuitar Heroplayers just pick up real guitars? What happens when millions of people play the role of a young black gang member inGrand Theft Auto: San Andreas?How are YouTube-based music lessons changing the nature of amateur musicianship? This book is about play, performance, and participatory culture in the digital age. Miller shows how video games and social media are bridging virtual and visceral experience, creating dispersed communities who forge meaningful connections by "playing along" with popular culture.Playing Alongreveals how digital media are brought to bear in the transmission of embodied knowledge: how aGrand Theft Autoplayer uses a virtual radio to hear with her…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments


About the Companion Website


Introduction: Playing Along



Playing Along with Grand Theft Auto



Straight Outta Ganton: Virtual Tourism, Fieldwork, and Performance



Jacking the Dial: Radio, Race, and Place in San Andreas



Playing Along with Guitar Hero and Rock Band



How Musical is Guitar Hero?



Just Add Performance: Staging Schizophonia



Playing Along with Communities of Practice



Music Lessons 2.0



Amateur-to-Amateur


Endgame


Notes


References


Index