rashore Posted July 19, 2016 #1 Share Posted July 19, 2016 While out and wandering around on the web, I stumbled across this rather interesting paper about digital folklore, and thought it would be good to share it here on UM Quote Abstract I collected forty-two e-mail forwards over the course of four months, and from those I formulated a framework that adapts existing theory in collection and study of real-world folklore to the emerging folk communities that exist on the internet. Through this analysis I prove that the same genres of folklore that is routinely collected by folklorists have been adapted to fit the digital environment of the internet. I then use the framework that I lay out to perform a study of the e-mails themselves. Bacon, J., 2011. The Digital Folklore Project: Tracking the Oral Tradition on the World Wide Web. ETSU site: http://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1398/ PDF of the paper: http://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2589&context=etd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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