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Folklore and the Internet : vernacular expression in a digital world /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blank, Trevor J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2009]
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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. McNeil.
Descripción Física:1 electronic resource (x, 260 pages )
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-253) and index.
ISBN:145717474X
9781457174742
0874217504
9780874217506
Acceso:Legal Deposit;