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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Blank, Trevor J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2009]
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Folklore and the Internet.
Folklore > Computer network resources.
Digital communications.
Folklore et Internet.
Transmission numérique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
COMPUTERS > Internet > General.
Digital communications
Folklore and the Internet
05.38 content aspects of electronic communication.
EBooks (www)
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (x, 260 pages )
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-253) and index.
ISBN:145717474X
9781457174742
0874217504
9780874217506
9781457174766
1457174766
Access:Legal Deposit;

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