Folklore and the Internet

by Blank, Trevor J.

• ISBN13: 9780874217506
• ISBN10: 0874217504
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-09
• Publisher: Utah State Univ Pr

Summary

Folklore and the Internet is a pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. It shows 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Folklore and the Internet	p. 1
Chapter 1	p. 21
Guardians of the Living: Characterization of Missing Women on the Internet	p. 67
The End of the Internet: A Folk Response to the Provision of Infinite Choice	p. 80
The Forward as Folklore: Studying E-Mailed Humor	p. 98
Epistemology, the Sociology of Knowledge, and the Wikipedia Userbox Controversy	p. 123
Crusading on the Vernacular Web: The Folk Beliefs and Practices of Online Spiritual Warfare	p. 159
Ghosts in the Machine: Mourning the MySpace Dead	p. 175
Public Folklore in Cyberspace	p. 194
Appendix: Webography of Public Folklore Resources	p. 213
References	p. 231
About the Contributors	p. 254
Index	p. 257
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