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UNINA9910140610003321 |
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Titolo |
Folklore and the Internet : vernacular expression in a digital world / / edited by Trevor J. Blank |
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Utah State University, University Libraries, 2009 |
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Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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ISBN |
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9781457174742 |
145717474X |
9780874217513 |
0874217512 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 260 pages ) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Digital communications |
Folklore - Computer network resources |
Folklore and the Internet |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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, |
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