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Folklore and the Internet : vernacular expression in a digital world / edited by Trevor J. Blank.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Digital communications.
- Folklore--Computer network resources.
- Folklore.
- Folklore and the Internet.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 260 pages )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Utah State University, University Libraries 2009
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. These stuidies show that folk culture, sustained by a new and evolving vernacular, has been a key, since the Internet's beginnings, to language, practice, and interaction online. Users of many sorts continue to develop the Internet as a significant medium for generating, transmitting, documenting, and preserving folklore. In a set of new, insightful essays, contributors Trevor J. Blank, Simon J. Bronner, Robert Dobler, Russell Frank, Gregory Hansen, Robert Glenn Howard,
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Folklore and the Internet; Chapter 1 Digitizing and Virtualizing Folklore; Chapter 2 Guardians of the Living: Characterization of Missing Women on the Internet; Chapter 3 The End of the Internet: A Folk Response to the Provision of Infinite Choice; Chapter 4 The Forward as Folklore: Studying E-Mailed Humor; Chapter 5 Epistemology, the Sociology of Knowledge, and the Wikipedia Userbox Controversy; Chapter 6 Crusading on the Vernacular Web: The Folk Beliefs and Practices of Online Spiritual Warfare; Chapter 7 Ghosts in the Machine: Mourning the MySpace Dead; Chapter 8 Public Folklore in Cyberspace; Appendix Webography of Public Folklore Resources; References; About the Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781457174742
- 145717474X
- 9780874217513
- 0874217512
- OCLC:
- 593333070
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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