Playing Along Free

Author: Kiri Miller
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B006UQ981U

Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance (Oxford Music/Media Series)

Why don't Guitar Hero players just pick up real guitars? What happens when millions of people play the role of a young black gang member in Grand 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. Get Playing Along computer books for free.
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 Along reveals how digital media are brought to bear in the transmission of embodied knowledge: how a Grand Theft Auto player uses a virtual radio to hear with her avatar's ears; how a Guitar Hero player channels Check Playing Along our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

Playing Along Free

Playing Along reveals how digital media are brought to bear in the transmission of embodied knowledge: how a Grand Theft Auto player uses a virtual radio to hear with her avatar's ears; how a Guitar Hero player channels

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