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Folklore and the Internet : vernacular expression in a digital world / edited by Trevor J. Blank.
- Title
- Folklore and the Internet : vernacular expression in a digital world / edited by Trevor J. Blank.
- Publication
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, c2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Blank, Trevor J.
- Description
- x, 260 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Folklore and the Internet is a pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. It shows 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."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Toward a conceptual framework for the study of folklore and the Internet / Trevor J. Blank -- Digitizing and virtualizing folklore / Simon J. Bronner -- Guardians of the living : characterization of missing women on the Internet / Elizabeth Tucker -- The end of the Internet : a folk response to the provision of infinite choice / Lynne S. McNeill -- The forward as folklore : studying e-mailed humor / Russell Frank -- Epistemology, the sociology of knowledge, and the Wikipedia userbox controversy / William Westerman -- Crusading on the vernacular Web : the folk beliefs and practices of online spiritual warfare / Robert Glenn Howard -- Ghosts in the machine : mourning the MySpace dead / Robert Dobler -- Public folklore in Cyberspace / Gregory Hansen -- Webography of public folklore resources / compiled by Gregory Hansen.
- ISBN
- 9780874217506 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0874217504 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780874217513 (e-book)
- 0874217512 (e-book)
- LCCN
- ^^2009026813
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library