Newslore : contemporary folklore on the Internet / / Russell Frank

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910954975603321
• Autore: Frank Russell <1954->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson, Miss., : University Press of Mississippi, c2011
• ISBN: 1-283-06966-0; 9786613069665; 1-60473-929-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 818/.607
• Soggetti: American wit and humor - History and criticism; Folklore - United States; Folklore and the Internet; Social psychology - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.