Folklore and social media

Blank, Trevor J., (editor.). Peck, Andrew, 1985- (editor.).

Summary: ""New scholarship to study digital folklore. A unique virtual, hybridized platform for human communication, social media is more dynamic, ubiquitous, and nuanced than the internet ever was by itself. Taking both the "digital" and "folklore" elements seriously because social media fundamentally changes folk practices in new and often invisible ways"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781646420582
ISBN: 9781646420599
ISBN: 1646420594
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 256 pages) : illustrations (some color)
remote
Computer data.
Publisher: Logan: Utah State University Press, an imprint of University Press of Colorado, [2020]

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : old practices, new media / Andrew Peck -- #LatinxGradCaps, cultural citizenship, and the "American dream" / Sheila Bock -- Bridges, sex slaves, Tweets and guns : a multi-domain model of conspiracy theory / Timothy R. Tangherlini, Vwani Roychowdhury, and Peter M. Broadwell -- The vernacular vortex : analyzing the endless churn of Donald Trump's Twitter orbit / Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner -- The death of Doge : institutional appropriations of the Internet memes / Andrew Peck -- "Zero is our quota" : folkloric narratives of the other in online forum comments / Liisi Laineste -- Trickster remakes this White House : booby traps and bawdy/body humor in post-election prankster Biden memes / Jeana Jorgensen and Linda J. Lee -- Dear David : affect and belief in Twitter horror / Kristiana Willsey -- The beauty, the beast, and the Fanon : the vernacularization of the literary canon and an epilogue for modernity / Tok Thompson -- Classifying #BlackLivesMatter : genre and form in digital folklore / Lynne S. McNeill -- The clown legend cascade of 2016 / John Laudun -- The blue whale suicide challenge : hypermodern ostension on a global scale / Elizabeth Tucker -- Overt and covert aspects of virtual play / Bill Ellis.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 18, 2020).