Last Laugh Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age

Name: Last Laugh Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age
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ISBN: 9780299292041

ISBN-10: 0299292045

ISBN-13: 9780299292041

Edition: 2013

Authors: Trevor J. Blank

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Widely publicized in mass media worldwide, high-profile tragedies and celebrity scandals—the untimely deaths of Michael Jackson and Princess Diana, the embarrassing affairs of Tiger Woods and President Clinton, the 9/11 attacks or the Challenger space shuttle explosion—often provoke nervous laughter and black humor. If in the past this snarky folklore may have been shared among friends and uttered behind closed doors, today the Internet's ubiquity and instant interactivity propels such humor across a much more extensive and digitally mediated discursive space. New media not only let more people "in on the joke," but they have also become the "go-to" formats for engaging in symbolic…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 8/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 188
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Cyberspace, Technology, and Mass Media in the Twenty-First Century



Searching for Connections: How and Why We Use New Media for Vernacular Expression



Changing Technologies, Changing Tastes: The Evolution of Humor and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Late Twentieth Century



From 9/11 to the Death of bin Laden: Vernacular Expression and the Emergence of Web 2.0



"Intimate Strangers": The Folk Response to Celebrity Death and Falls from Grace



From Sports Hero to Supervillain: Or, How Tiger Woods Wrecked His Car(eer)



Dethroning the King of Pop: Michael Jackson and the Humor of Death



Laughing to Death: Tradition, Vernacular Expression, and American Culture in the Digital Age


Afterword: Predictions on Future Trajectories of Vernacular Expression and New Media


Glossary


Notes


References


Index