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The Last Laugh : Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age /
Widely publicized in mass media worldwide, high-profile tragedies and celebrity scandals, the untimely deaths of Michael Jackson and Princess Diana, the embarrassing affairs of Tiger Woods and President Clinton, the 9/11 attacks or the Challenger space shuttle explosion, often provoke nervous laught...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Madison :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: cyberspace, technology, and mass media in the twenty-first century
- Searching for connections: how and why we use new media for vernacular expression
- Changing technologies, changing tastes: the evolution of humor and mass-mediated disasters in the late twentieth century
- From 9/11 to the death of bin Laden: vernacular expression and the emergence of web 2.0
- "Intimate strangers": the folk response to celebrity death and falls from grace
- From sports hero to supervillain: or, how Tiger Woods wrecked his car(eer)
- Dethroning the king of pop: Michael Jackson and the humor of death
- Laughing to death: tradition, vernacular expression, and American culture in the digital age
- Afterword: predictions on future trajectories of vernacular expression and new media.