Folklore and the Internet
Title | Folklore and the Internet PDF eBook |
Author | Trevor J. Blank |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2009-09-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 145717474X |
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
Folklore and the Internet
Title | Folklore and the Internet PDF eBook |
Author | Trevor J. Blank |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2009-09-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0874217512 |
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
Folk Culture in the Digital Age
Title | Folk Culture in the Digital Age PDF eBook |
Author | Trevor J. Blank |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2012-11-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1457184672 |
Smart phones, tablets, Facebook, Twitter, and wireless Internet connections are the latest technologies to have become entrenched in our culture. Although traditionalists have argued that computer-mediated communication and cyberspace are incongruent with the study of folklore, Trevor J. Blank sees the digital world as fully capable of generating, transmitting, performing, and archiving vernacular culture. Folklore in the Digital Age documents the emergent cultural scenes and expressive folkloric communications made possible by digital “new media” technologies. New media is changing the ways in which people learn, share, participate, and engage with others as they adopt technologies to complement and supplement traditional means of vernacular expression. But behavioral and structural overlap in many folkloric forms exists between on- and offline, and emerging patterns in digital rhetoric mimic the dynamics of previously documented folkloric forms, invoking familiar social or behavior customs, linguistic inflections, and symbolic gestures. Folklore in the Digital Age provides insights and perspectives on the myriad ways in which folk culture manifests in the digital age and contributes to our greater understanding of vernacular expression in our ever-changing technological world.
Folklore and the Internet
Title | Folklore and the Internet PDF eBook |
Author | Trevor J. Blank |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Digital communications |
ISBN |
Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific
Title | Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Wong, Shun-han Rebekah |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2019-01-25 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1522571965 |
Digital humanities is a dynamic and emerging field that aspires to enhance traditional research and scholarship through digital media. Although countries around the world are witnessing the widespread adoption of digital humanities, only a small portion of the literature discusses its development in the Asia Pacific region. Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific provides innovative insights into the development of digital humanities and their ability to facilitate academic exchange and preserve cultural heritage. The content covers challenges including the need to maintain digital humanities momentum in libraries and research communities, to increase international collaboration, to maintain and promote developed digital projects, to deploy and redeploy resources to support research, and to build new skillsets and new professionals in the library. It is designed for librarians, government agencies, industry professionals, academicians, and researchers.
Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man
Title | Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man PDF eBook |
Author | S. Chess |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2014-11-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137491132 |
The Slender Man entered the general popular consciousness in May 2014, when two young girls led a third girl into a wooded area and stabbed her. Examining the growth of the online horror phenomenon, this book introduces unique attributes of digital culture and establishes a needed framework for studies of other Internet memes and mythologies.
Folklore in the Digital Age
Title | Folklore in the Digital Age PDF eBook |
Author | Violetta Krawczyk-Wasilewska |
Publisher | Jagiellonian University Press |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2017-01-31 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788323341758 |
?Folklore in the Digital Age shows how digital folklore transcends the boundaries of cyberspace and has very real effect on our everyday life in today's interconnected global world. Online and digital cultures are perhaps the most vivid aspects of globalization and while global multimedia culture may on the one hand endanger traditional folklore, there is no doubt that it creates new folklore as well. Collecting essays from Violetta Krawczyk-Wasilewska's 15 years of e-folklore research, this book is an illustration of the range of modern folklore studies. While these essays cover the most serious political issues of the day, such as the 9/11 attacks, the Arab Spring and global epidemic threats such as the HIV virus, the book also touches on more lighthearted topics, such as online dating and food culture.