Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World

by Trevor J. Blank (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874217513
Publisher:	Utah State University Press
Publication date:	09/07/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	260
File size:	494 KB

Table of Contents

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 Warfar 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