Blank, Trevor J., editorUtah State University Press, publisher2007-01-032007-01-032009http://hdl.handle.net/10217/87957Includes bibliographical references and index.A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. These studies show that folk culture, sustained by a new and evolving vernacular, has been a key, since the Internet's beginnings, to language, practice, and interaction online. Users of many sorts continue to develop the Internet as a significant medium for generating, transmitting, documenting, and preserving folklore. In a set of new, insightful essays, contributors Trevor J. Blank, Simon J. Bronner, Robert Dobler, Russell Frank, Gregory Hansen, Robert Glenn Howard, Lynne S. McNeil.Toward a conceptual framework for the study of folklore and the Internet / Trevor J. Blank -- Digitizing and virtualizing folklore / Simon J. Bronner -- Guardians of the living: characterization of missing women on the Internet / Elizabeth Tucker -- The end of the Internet: a folk response to the provision of infinite choice / Lynne S. McNeill -- The forward as folklore: studying e-mailed humor / Russell Frank -- Epistemology, the sociology of knowledge, and the Wikipedia userbox controversy / William Westerman -- Crusading on the vernacular Web: the folk beliefs and practices of online spiritual warfare / Robert Glenn Howard -- Ghosts in the machine: mourning the MySpace dead / Robert Dobler -- Public folklore in Cyberspace / Gregory Hansen -- Webography of public folklore resources / compiled by Gregory Hansen.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.Folklore and the InternetFolklore -- Computer network resourcesDigital communicationsTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.