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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.