LEADER 03508oam 22006974a 450 001 9910140610003321 005 20240424230432.0 010 $a9781457174742 010 $a145717474X 010 $a9780874217513 010 $a0874217512 035 $a(CKB)2670000000013933 035 $a(EBL)496645 035 $a(OCoLC)593333070 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000337763 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11253906 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337763 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10293435 035 $a(PQKB)10779993 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442792 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13339 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC496645 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442792 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348765 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL496645 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/47800 035 $a(Perlego)2032662 035 $a(oapen)doab47800 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000013933 100 $a20090629d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aFolklore and the Internet $evernacular expression in a digital world /$fedited by Trevor J. Blank 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cUtah State University, University Libraries$d2009 210 1$aLogan, Utah :$cUtah State University Press,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 260 pages ) 311 0 $a9780874217506 311 0 $a0874217504 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aA 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, 606 $aDigital communications 606 $aFolklore$xComputer network resources 606 $aFolklore and the Internet 615 0$aDigital communications. 615 0$aFolklore$xComputer network resources. 615 0$aFolklore and the Internet. 676 $a398.02854678 676 $a398.02854678 701 $aBlank$b Trevor J$0801351 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910140610003321 996 $aFolklore and the internet$92246269 997 $aUNINA