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The Last Laugh : Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World SeriesPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (188 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780299292034
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Last LaughDDC classification:
  • 398/.36
LOC classification:
  • GR44
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cyberspace, Technology, and Mass Media in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 1. Searching for Connections: How And Why We Use New Media For Vernacular Expression -- Chapter 2. Changing Technologies, Changing Tastes: The Evolution Of Humor And Mass-Mediated Disasters In The Late Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3. From 9/11 To The Death Of Bin Laden: Vernacular Expression And The Emergence Of Web 2.0 -- Chapter 4. "Intimate Strangers" The Folk Response To Celebrity Death And Falls From Grace -- Chapter 5. From Sports Hero to Supervillain Or, How Tiger Woods Wrecked His Car(eer) -- Chapter 6. Dethroning the King of Pop: Michael Jackson And The Humor Of Death -- Chapter 7. Laughing to Death: Tradition, Vernacular Expression and American Culture In The Digital Age -- Afterword -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cyberspace, Technology, and Mass Media in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 1. Searching for Connections: How And Why We Use New Media For Vernacular Expression -- Chapter 2. Changing Technologies, Changing Tastes: The Evolution Of Humor And Mass-Mediated Disasters In The Late Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3. From 9/11 To The Death Of Bin Laden: Vernacular Expression And The Emergence Of Web 2.0 -- Chapter 4. "Intimate Strangers" The Folk Response To Celebrity Death And Falls From Grace -- Chapter 5. From Sports Hero to Supervillain Or, How Tiger Woods Wrecked His Car(eer) -- Chapter 6. Dethroning the King of Pop: Michael Jackson And The Humor Of Death -- Chapter 7. Laughing to Death: Tradition, Vernacular Expression and American Culture In The Digital Age -- Afterword -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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