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Folklore and the Internet : Vernacular Expression in a Digital World.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University Press of Colorado, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (271 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780874217513
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Folklore and the InternetDDC classification:
  • 398.02854678
LOC classification:
  • GR44
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 Warfar -- 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.
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Intro -- 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 Warfar -- 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.

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