Research Catalog

Title

Folklore and social media / edited by Andrew Peck and Trevor J. Blank.

Publication

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blank, Trevor J.
• Peck, Andrew, 1985-

Description

viii, 256 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

""New scholarship to study digital folklore. A unique virtual, hybridized platform for human communication, social media is more dynamic, ubiquitous, and nuanced than the internet ever was by itself. Taking both the "digital" and "folklore" elements seriously because social media fundamentally changes folk practices in new and often invisible ways"--

Subject

• Folklore and the Internet
• Communication in folklore
• Social media
• Digital media

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : old practices, new media / Andrew Peck -- #LatinxGradCaps, cultural citizenship, and the "American dream" / Sheila Bock -- Bridges, sex slaves, Tweets and guns : a multi-domain model of conspiracy theory / Timothy R. Tangherlini, Vwani Roychowdhury, and Peter M. Broadwell -- The vernacular vortex : analyzing the endless churn of Donald Trump's Twitter orbit / Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner -- The death of Doge : institutional appropriations of the Internet memes / Andrew Peck -- "Zero is our quota" : folkloric narratives of the other in online forum comments / Liisi Laineste -- Trickster remakes this White House : booby traps and bawdy/body humor in post-election prankster Biden memes / Jeana Jorgensen and Linda J. Lee -- Dear David : affect and belief in Twitter horror / Kristiana Willsey -- The beauty, the beast, and the Fanon : the vernacularization of the literary canon and an epilogue for modernity / Tok Thompson -- Classifying #BlackLivesMatter : genre and form in digital folklore / Lynne S. McNeill -- The clown legend cascade of 2016 / John Laudun -- The blue whale suicide challenge : hypermodern ostension on a global scale / Elizabeth Tucker -- Overt and covert aspects of virtual play / Bill Ellis.

Call Number

JFE 21-731

ISBN

• 9781646420582
• 1646420586
• 9781646420599 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020028068

OCLC

1162187638

Title

Folklore and social media / edited by Andrew Peck and Trevor J. Blank.

Publisher

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Blank, Trevor J., editor.

Peck, Andrew, 1985- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Folklore and social media Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2020] 9781646420599 (DLC) 2020028069

Research Call Number

JFE 21-731