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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140610003321

Titolo

Folklore and the Internet : vernacular expression in a digital world / / edited by Trevor J. Blank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Utah State University, University Libraries, 2009

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

9781457174742

145717474X

9780874217513

0874217512

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 260 pages )

Altri autori (Persone)

BlankTrevor J

Disciplina

398.02854678

Soggetti

Digital communications

Folklore - Computer network resources

Folklore and the Internet

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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,