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Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World
Utah State University Press, 2009 Paper: 978-0-87421-750-6 | eISBN: 978-0-87421-751-3 Library of Congress Classification GR44.E43F65 2009 Dewey Decimal Classification 398.02854678
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. These stuidies 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. See other books on: Blank, Trevor J. | Computer network resources | Digital communications | Folklore and the Internet | Internet See other titles from Utah State University Press |
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Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World
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Utah State University Press, 2009
Paper: 978-0-87421-750-6
eISBN: 978-0-87421-751-3
Paper: 978-0-87421-750-6
eISBN: 978-0-87421-751-3
A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. These stuidies 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
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