LEADER 04508nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910952248203321 005 20240418054738.0 010 $a9780299292034 010 $a0299292037 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060240 035 $a(EBL)3445345 035 $a(OCoLC)927484446 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000956606 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11599401 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000956606 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10965005 035 $a(PQKB)10721882 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3445345 035 $a(OCoLC)859778175 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25299 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3445345 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10729507 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL504329 035 $a(OCoLC)852160097 035 $a(Perlego)4512153 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060240 100 $a20120829d2013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe last laugh $efolk humor, celebrity culture, and mass-mediated disasters in the digital age /$fTrevor J. Blank 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (188 p.) 225 0$aFolklore studies in a multicultural world 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780299292041 311 08$a0299292045 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Cyberspace, Technology, and Mass Media in the Twenty-First Century""; ""Chapter 1. Searching for Connections: How And Why We Use New Media For Vernacular Expression ""; ""Chapter 2. Changing Technologies, Changing Tastes: The Evolution Of Humor And Mass-Mediated Disasters In The Late Twentieth Century ""; ""Chapter 3. From 9/11 To The Death Of Bin Laden: Vernacular Expression And The Emergence Of Web 2.0""; ""Chapter 4. ""Intimate Strangers"" The Folk Response To Celebrity Death And Falls From Grace"" 327 $a""Chapter 5. From Sports Hero to Supervillain Or, How Tiger Woods Wrecked His Car(eer) """"Chapter 6. Dethroning the King of Pop: Michael Jackson And The Humor Of Death""; ""Chapter 7. Laughing to Death: Tradition, Vernacular Expression and American Culture In The Digital Age ""; ""Afterword ""; ""Glossary ""; ""Notes""; ""References ""; ""Index"" 330 8 $aWidely publicized in mass media worldwide, high-profile tragedies and celebrity scandals-the untimely deaths of Michael Jackson and Princess Diana, the embarrassing affairs of Tiger Woods and President Clinton, the 9/11 attacks or the Challenger space shuttle explosion-often provoke nervous laughter and black humor. If in the past this snarky folklore may have been shared among friends and uttered behind closed doors, today the Internet's ubiquity and instant interactivity propels such humor across a much more extensive and digitally mediated discursive space. New media not only let more people "in on the joke, " but they have also become the "go-to" formats for engaging in symbolic interaction, especially in times of anxiety or emotional suppression, by providing users an expansive forum for humorous, combative, or intellectual communication, including jokes that cross the line of propriety and good taste. Moving through engaging case studies of Internet-derived humor about momentous disasters in recent American popular culture and history, The Last Laugh chronicles how and why new media have become a predominant means of vernacular expression. Trevor J. Blank argues that computer-mediated communication has helped to compensate for users' sense of physical detachment in the "real" world, while generating newly meaningful and dynamic opportunities for the creation and dissemination of folklore. Drawing together recent developments in new media studies with the analytical tools of folklore studies, he makes a strong case for the significance to contemporary folklore of technologically driven trends in folk and mass culture. 410 0$aFolklore studies in a multicultural world. 606 $aFolklore and the Internet 606 $aFolklore 615 0$aFolklore and the Internet. 615 0$aFolklore. 676 $a398/.36 700 $aBlank$b Trevor J$0801351 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910952248203321 996 $aThe last laugh$94362019 997 $aUNINA