Folklore and social media / edited by Andrew Peck & Trevor J. Blank.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blank, Trevor J., editor.

Peck, Andrew, 1985- editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore and the Internet.

Communication in folklore.

Social media.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 256 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Logan: Utah State University Press, an imprint of University Press of Colorado, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Ten years after the publication of the foundational edited collection Folklore and the Internet , Andrew Peck and Trevor J. Blank bring an essential update of scholarship to the study of digital folklore, Folklore and Social Media. A unique virtual, hybridized platform for human communication, social media is more dynamic, ubiquitous, and nuanced than the internet ever was by itself, and the majority of Americans use it to access and interact with digital source materials in more advanced and robust ways. This book features twelve chapters ranging in topics from legend transmission and fake news to case studies of memes, joke cycles, and Twitter hashtag campaigns and offers fresh insights on digital heritage and web archiving. The editors and contributors take both the "digital" and "folklore" elements seriously because social media fundamentally changes folk practices in new, though often invisible, ways. Social media platforms encourage hybrid performances that appear informal and ordinary while also offering significant space to obfuscate backstage behaviors through editing and retakes. The result is that expression online becomes increasingly reminiscent of traditional forms of face-to-face interaction, while also hiding its fundamental differences. Folklore and Social Media demonstrates various ways to refine methods and analyses in order to develop a better understanding of the informal and traditional dynamics that define an era of folklore and social media. It is an invaluable addition to the literature on digital folklore scholarship that will be of interest to students and scholars alike. Contributors: Sheila Bock, Peter M. Broadwell, Bill Ellis, Jeana Jorgensen, Liisi Laineste, John Laudun, Linda J. Lee, Lynne S. McNeill, Ryan M. Milner, Whitney Phillips, Vwani Roychowdhury, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Tok Thompson, Elizabeth Tucker, Kristiana Willsey

Contents:

Introduction : old practices, new media / Andrew Peck

#LatinxGradCaps, cultural citizenship, and the "American dream" / Sheila Bock

Bridges, sex slaves, Tweets and guns : a multi-domain model of conspiracy theory / Timothy R. Tangherlini, Vwani Roychowdhury, and Peter M. Broadwell

The vernacular vortex : analyzing the endless churn of Donald Trump's Twitter orbit / Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner

The death of Doge : institutional appropriations of the Internet memes / Andrew Peck

"Zero is our quota" : folkloric narratives of the other in online forum comments / Liisi Laineste

Trickster remakes this White House : booby traps and bawdy/body humor in post-election prankster Biden memes / Jeana Jorgensen and Linda J. Lee

Dear David : affect and belief in Twitter horror / Kristiana Willsey

The beauty, the beast, and the Fanon : the vernacularization of the literary canon and an epilogue for modernity / Tok Thompson

Classifying #BlackLivesMatter : genre and form in digital folklore / Lynne S. McNeill

The clown legend cascade of 2016 / John Laudun

The blue whale suicide challenge : hypermodern ostension on a global scale / Elizabeth Tucker

Overt and covert aspects of virtual play / Bill Ellis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 18, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Folklore and social media

ISBN:

9781646420599

1646420594

Publisher Number:

40030264977

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.