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1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations |
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-253) and index. |
Contents |
Toward a conceptual framework for the study of folklore and the Internet / Trevor J. Blank -- Digitizing and virtualizing folklore / Simon J. Bronner -- Guardians of the living : characterization of missing women on the Internet / Elizabeth Tucker -- The end of the Internet : a folk response to the provision of infinite choice / Lynne S. McNeill -- The forward as folklore : studying e-mailed humor / Russell Frank -- Epistemology, the sociology of knowledge, and the Wikipedia userbox controversy / William Westerman -- Crusading on the vernacular Web : the folk beliefs and practices of online spiritual warfare / Robert Glenn Howard -- Ghosts in the machine : mourning the MySpace dead / Robert Dobler -- Public folklore in Cyberspace / Gregory Hansen -- Webography of public folklore resources / compiled by Gregory Hansen. |
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. |
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Print version record. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Language |
English. |
Access |
Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). WlAbNL |
Terms Of Use |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
Subject |
Folklore and the Internet.
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Folklore -- Computer network resources.
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Digital communications.
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Folklore et Internet.
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Transmission numérique.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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COMPUTERS -- Internet -- General.
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Digital communications. (OCoLC)fst00893634
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Folklore and the Internet. (OCoLC)fst01748519
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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EBooks (www)
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Added Author |
Blank, Trevor J.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Folklore and the Internet. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2009 9780874217506 (DLC) 2009026813 (OCoLC)422761150 |
ISBN |
9780874217513 (electronic bk.) |
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0874217512 (electronic bk.) |
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9780874217506 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0874217504 |
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0874217504 |
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9780874217506 |
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145717474X |
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9781457174742 |
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9780874217506 |
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AU@ 000051364664 |
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DEBBG BV043786205 |
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DEBBG BV044118195 |
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DEBSZ 396349668 |
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DEBSZ 472469878 |
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GBVCP 1008653896 |
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NZ1 14250981 |
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UKMGB 020143376 |
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