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Grove Street Grimm: Grand Theft Auto and Digital Folklore

Submitted by kiri on Wed, 16/07/2008 - 13:44.
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Publication Type  Journal Article
Year of Publication  2008
Authors  Miller, Kiri
Journal Title  Journal of American Folklore
Volume  121
Issue  481
Pagination  255-285
Key Words  folklore; game theory; performance; ethnography; tourism; museum; music; hip-hop; race; San Andreas; GTA; Grand Theft Auto
Abstract  

This article investigates the Grand Theft Auto videogame series in order to demonstrate the potential of a folkloristic, ethnographic approach for the analysis of digital games. I discuss Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as a story collection, a frame for performance, a virtual museum of vernacular culture, and a widely circulated pop culture artifact whose double-voiced aesthetic has given rise to diverse interpretive communities. This case study suggests that digital gameplay should be regarded as a form of performance practice with the capacity to invoke traditional folkloric genres and engender new traditions.


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Have you ever played GTA San

Submitted by jay1 on Fri, 01/08/2008 - 00:47.

Have you ever played GTA San Andreas Multi-Player? Just search google for "sa-mp" and you'll find it, it's been coded by the community so it's not exactly perfect but it's a hell of a blast. I'm sure you remember that stupid "coffee" scandal, right? They even had a huge petition about it but I can't seem to find it, it was on this petition site someplace. Anyway, turns out  RS lost the law suit but nobody even came forward to collect. It was just a bunch of hoopla about nothing that the PTV came on about.

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