Blank, Trevor J.

Folklore and the Internet : Vernacular Expression in a Digital World. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (271 pages)

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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Folklore and the Internet.
Folklore--Computer network resources.
Digital communications.


Electronic books.

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