| Title | : | Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World |
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| ISBN | : | 0874217504 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780874217506 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2009 |
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.
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.
Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World Reviews
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The problem with most books decribing contemporary character of the internet is that they tend to become obsolete too quickly. But they have to be written anyway.
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I was expecting, well, I don't know what I was expecting from this collection. It was mostly using traditional methods for collecting and analyzing folklore applied to the internet, and by internet they mean discussion groups, e-mail and even BBS. Chapters deal with the use and jokes on Budd Dwyer's suicide; discussion of Natalee Holloway's disappearance on boards, forwarding e-mails, and Myspace remembrances. Some seemed to be a stretch as folklore, but that's part of the reasoning of this book, what do we define as folklore in the digital age.
