03112nam 2200637 a 450 991095497560332120200520144314.01-283-06966-097866130696651-60473-929-0(CKB)2560000000072438(EBL)683903(OCoLC)721194291(SSID)ssj0000516855(PQKBManifestationID)11340656(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000516855(PQKBWorkID)10478014(PQKB)10947487(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206342(MiAaPQ)EBC683903(Au-PeEL)EBL683903(CaPaEBR)ebr10464794(CaONFJC)MIL306966(EXLCZ)99256000000007243820140131d2011 fy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNewslore contemporary folklore on the Internet /Russell Frank1st ed.Jackson, Miss. University Press of Mississippic20111 online resource (279 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60473-928-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; INDEXNewslore 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.American wit and humorHistory and criticismFolkloreUnited StatesFolklore and the InternetSocial psychologyUnited StatesAmerican wit and humorHistory and criticism.FolkloreFolklore and the Internet.Social psychology818/.607Frank Russell1954-1817993StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910954975603321Newslore4376884UNINA