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cfr-25105	Hercbergs, Dana	A Reassessment of Children's Folklore Classification	2008	10	.pdf	application/pdf	4856	265	57	For instance, through ethnographic research folklorists can evaluate the extent CFR_2006-07_R3.indb 26 11/6/08 11:46:06 AM HERCBERGS A REASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN’S FOLKLORE CLASSIFICATION 27 to which children and teens who from a young age engage in mass-mediated digital gaming experience it as hyper-reality or a simulation of reality (Baudrillard 1983, 38 in Rodaway 1995, 246). CFR_2006-07_R3.indb 27 11/6/08 11:46:06 AM A REASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN’S FOLKLORE CLASSIFICATION HERCBERGS 28 While this model accounts for performer-audience interaction only, through which it elucidates the relationships among the genres in an accessible and convincing way, its shortcoming as far as play is concerned is that it does not account for interaction, identification or engrossment in the static genres themselves, some of which are placed outside of the realm of folklore — what Abrahams calls “a product of technology” (213) — nor does it make room for considering the figurative and dynamic play world to which that they may give rise.6 And yet, folklorists have demonstrated the imaginative capacity of children when playing with mass-produced toys.	cache/cfr-25105.pdf	txt/cfr-25105.txt