Folklore and the Internet
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Folklore and the Internet

Vernacular Expression in a Digital World

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Folklore and the Internet

Vernacular Expression in a Digital World

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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, Lynne S. McNeill, Elizabeth Tucker, and William Westerman showcase ways the Internet both shapes and is shaped by folklore

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Publisher
Utah State University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780874217513
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction - Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Folklore and the Internet
  8. Chapter 1 - Digitizing and Virtualizing Folklore
  9. Chapter 2 - Guardians of the Living: Characterization of Missing Women on the Internet
  10. Chapter 3 - The End of the Internet: A Folk Response to the Provision of Infinite Choice
  11. Chapter 4 - The Forward as Folklore: Studying E-Mailed Humor
  12. Chapter 5 - Epistemology, the Sociology of Knowledge, and the Wikipedia Userbox Controversy
  13. Chapter 6 - Crusading on the Vernacular Web: The Folk Beliefs and Practices of Online Spiritual Warfare
  14. Chapter 7 - Ghosts in the Machine: Mourning the MySpace Dead
  15. Chapter 8 - Public Folklore in Cyberspace
  16. Appendix - Webography of Public Folklore Resources
  17. References
  18. About the Contributors
  19. Index