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Title Folklore and the Internet : vernacular expression in a digital world / edited by Trevor J. Blank.

Imprint Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2009.

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Description 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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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.
Folklore -- Computer network resources.
Digital communications.
Folklore et Internet.
Transmission numérique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
COMPUTERS -- Internet -- General.
Digital communications. (OCoLC)fst00893634
Folklore and the Internet. (OCoLC)fst01748519
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
EBooks (www)
Added Author Blank, Trevor J.
Other Form: Print version: Folklore and the Internet. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2009 9780874217506 (DLC) 2009026813 (OCoLC)422761150
ISBN 9780874217513 (electronic bk.)
0874217512 (electronic bk.)
9780874217506 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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