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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430348306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Folklore and the Internet; Chapter 1 Digitizing and Virtualizing Folklore; Chapter 2 Guardians of the Living: Characterization of Missing Women on the Internet; Chapter 3 The End of the Internet: A Folk Response to the Provision of Infinite Choice; Chapter 4 The Forward as Folklore: Studying E-Mailed Humor; Chapter 5 Epistemology, the Sociology of Knowledge, and the Wikipedia Userbox Controversy; Chapter 6 Crusading on the Vernacular Web: The Folk Beliefs and Practices of Online Spiritual Warfare; Chapter 7 Ghosts in the Machine: Mourning the MySpace Dead; Chapter 8 Public Folklore in Cyberspace; Appendix Webography of Public Folklore Resources; References; About the Contributors; Index
