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Titolo: |
Folklore and the Internet : vernacular expression in a digital world / / edited by Trevor J. Blank
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Pubblicazione: | Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2009 |
©2009 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 260 pages ) |
Disciplina: | 398.02854678 |
Soggetto topico: | Digital communications |
Folklore - Computer network resources | |
Folklore and the Internet | |
Altri autori: |
BlankTrevor J
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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, |
Titolo autorizzato: | Folklore and the internet ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4571-7474-X |
0-87421-751-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910140610003321 |
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