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The Digital Folklore Project


rashore

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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 :)

 

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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.
 
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