Folklore and the Internet
Folklore and the Internet
Folklore and the Internet
Trevor J. Blank, ed
6x9, 272 pages

ISBN 978-0-87421-750-6
paper $24.95

ISBN 978-0-87421-751-3
e-book $20.00

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Trevor J. Blank is a doctoral student in American studies at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. He earned his master's degree at Indiana University's Folklore Institute in 2007. He has presented research at over a dozen conferences nationwide and has published articles in such journals as Folklore Forum, Pioneer America Society Transactions, The Folklore Historian, and Material Culture. He recently coauthored Spring Grove State Hospital (with David S. Helsel), which examines the history of the second oldest continuously operating psychiatric facility in America.

Folklore and the Internet

Vernacular Expression in a Digital World

Trevor J. Blank, editor

Folklore and the Internet is a pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. It shows that folk culture, sustained by a new and evolving vernacular, has been a key, since the Internetýs 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. McNeill, Elizabeth Tucker, and William Westerman showcase ways the Internet both shapes and is shaped by folklore