Peck, Andrew, editorBlank, Trevor J., editorUtah State University Press, publisher2020-12-142020-12-142020https://hdl.handle.net/10217/218265Includes bibliographical references and index.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.--Provided by publisher.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.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 InternetCommunication in folkloreSocial mediaDigital mediaTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University 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.