JSTOR

Folklore and the Internet

Year

2009

Publisher

University Press of Colorado

Type

BOOK

Category

Social Science

Language

English

Pages

271

ISBN

978-0-87421-751-3

Link

Last Update

09-Sep-2024

Keywords

COMPUTERS / Internet / General;SOCIAL SCIENCE / General;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology

Description

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. McNeill, Elizabeth Tucker, and William Westerman showcase ways the Internet both shapes and is shaped by folklore

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