Newslore : contemporary folklore on the Internet / Russell Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Russell, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American wit and humor--History and criticism.

American wit and humor.

Folklore--United States.

Folklore.

Folklore and the Internet.

Social psychology--United States.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. These expressions come in many forms: jokes, urban legends, digitally altered photographs, mock news stories, press releases or inter-office memoranda, parodies of songs, poems, political and commercial advertisements, movie previews and posters, still or animated cartoons, and short live-action films. This book offers a snapshot of the items of newslore disseminated via the Internet that gained the widest currency around the turn of the millennium.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE: Greetings from a Desk Chair Traveler; INTRODUCTION: Tiny Revolutions; 1. Where Is the Humor?: ANTI-HILLARY JOKES IN THE NEWS; 2. I Could Throw All of You out the Window: THE DEMOCRATS; 3. When the Going Gets Tough: NEWSLORE OF SEPTEMBER 11; 4. Got Fish?: NEWSLORE OF HURRICANE KATRINA; 5. It Takes a Village Idiot: BUSHLORE; 6. You Can't Raffle Off a Dead Donkey: NEWSLORE OF COMMERCE; 7. Not-So-Heavenly Gates: NEWSLORE OF THE DIGITAL AGE; 8. Diana's Halo: NEWSLORE AS FOLK MEDIA CRITICISM; CONCLUSION: Attention Must Be Paid, But For How Much Longer?

APPENDIX A: A Week In The Life Of My In-Box: A Newslore MiscellanyAPPENDIX B: Collecting and Analyzing Newslore; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-06966-0

9786613069665

1-60473-929-0

OCLC:

721194291