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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press,
[2009]
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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.