Folklore and the Internet : vernacular expression in a digital world / / edited by Trevor J. Blank

• 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
• 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.: 996198689903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno