Folklore and the Internet Vernacular Expression in a Digital World 1st Edition by Trevor Blank 0874217504 9780874217506

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ISBN 10: 0874217504 

ISBN 13: 9780874217506

Author: Trevor J. Blank

A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, email, and related digital media. These studies 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. McNeill, Elizabeth Tucker, and William Westerman showcase ways the Internet both shapes and is shaped by folklore.

Table of contents:

1. Digitizing and Virtualizing Folklore

2. Guardians of the Living: Characterization of Missing Women on the Internet

3. The End of the Internet: A Folk Response to the Provision of Infinite Choice

4. The Forward as Folklore: Studying E-Mailed Humor

5. Epistemology, the Sociology of Knowledge, and the Wikipedia Userbox Controversy

6. Crusading on the Vernacular Web: The Folk Beliefs and Practices of Online Spiritual Warfare

7. Ghosts in the Machine: Mourning the MySpace Dead

8. Public Folklore in Cyberspace

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