Newslore : Contemporary Folklore on the Internet /

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"Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. These expressions come in many forms: jokes, urban legends, digitally altered photographs, mock news stories, press releases or interoffice memoranda, parodies of songs, poems, political and commercial advertiseme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frank, Russell, 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social psychology.
Folklore and the Internet.
Folklore.
American wit and humor.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Psychologie sociale > États-Unis.
Folklore et Internet.
Folklore > États-Unis.
Humour americain > Histoire et critique.
Social psychology > United States.
Folklore > United States.
American wit and humor > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Where is the humor? : Anti-Hillary jokes in the news
  • I could throw all of you out the window : The democrats
  • When the going gets tough : Newslore of September 11
  • Got fish? : Newslore of hurricane Katrina
  • It takes a village idiot : Bushlore
  • You can't raffle off a dead donkey : Newslore of commerce
  • Not-so-heavenly gates : Newslore of the digital age
  • Diana's halo : Newslore as folk media criticism.

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