Tampa Tarot: An Experiment in Community Storytelling
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https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_6-1_14Keywords:
Tarot, Tampa, community, storytelling, narrative, newsAbstract
Tampa Tarot combines web-based interactive storytelling and an Augmented Reality (AR) feature that displays virtual tarot cards on users’smart phones in specific geographical locations throughout the city. The project attempts to answer the following question: In a world of diffuse and fragmented media, where old places and stories are displaced and obscured by layers of disconnected images and a growing, changing population, how do we understand who we are as a community? Emphasizing the intrinsically social and historical character of the tarot, the project employs the narrative structure of cartomancy (card reading) as a form of community storytelling.
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Published
2018-08-10
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Tripp, Stephanie. 2018. “Tampa Tarot: An Experiment in Community Storytelling”. MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 6 (1):199-207. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_6-1_14.
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