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Folklore and the Internet : vernacular expression in a digital world /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Blank, Trevor J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Folklore and the Internet.
Folklore > Computer network resources.
Digital communications.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
COMPUTERS > Internet > General.
EBooks (www)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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. McNeil.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-253) and index.
ISBN:9780874217513
0874217512