Folk Culture in the Digital Age The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction

Name: Folk Culture in the Digital Age The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction
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ISBN: 9780874218893

ISBN-10: 0874218896

ISBN-13: 9780874218893

Edition: 2012

Authors: Trevor J. Blank

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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…

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List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication date: 11/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.05" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Brief Word on QR Codes


Introduction: Pattern in the Virtual Folk Culture of Computer-Mediated Communication




How Counterculture Helped Put the "Vernacular" in Vernacular Webs




Netizens, Revolutionaries, and the Inalienable Right to the Internet




Performance 2.0: Observations toward a Theory of the Digital Performance of Folklore




Real Virtuality: Enhancing Locality by Enacting the Small World Theory




Jokes on the Internet: Listing towards Lists




The Jewish Joke Online: Framing and Symbolizing Humor in Analog and Digital Culture




From Oral Tradition to Cyberspace: Tapeworm Diet Rumors and Legends




Love and War and Anime Art: An Ethnographic Look at a Virtual Community of Collectors




Face-to-Face with the Digital Folk: The Ethics of Fieldwork on Facebook



References


About the Contributors


Index