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Smart phones, tablets, Facebook, Twitter, and wireless Internet connections are the latest technologies to have become entrenched in our culture. Although traditionalists have argued that computer-mediated communication and cyberspace are incongruent with the study of folklore, Trevor J. Blank sees the digital world as fully capable of generating, transmitting, performing, and archiving vernacular culture. Folklore in the Digital Age documents the emergent cultural scenes and expressive folkloric communications made possible by digital "new media" technologies.

Folklore and the Internet. --- Folklore --- Computer network resources.

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This title illustrates and explains the fundamental similarities and correspondences between humankind's oldest and newest thought-technologies: oral tradition and the Internet.

Oral tradition --- Folklore and the Internet. --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Internet and folklore --- Internet --- Computer network resources.

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A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. These stuidies 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,

Folklore and the Internet --- Folklore --- Digital communications --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Computer network resources --- Folklore and the Internet. --- Digital communications. --- Computer network resources. --- Communications, Digital --- Digital transmission --- Pulse communication --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Internet and folklore --- Digital electronics --- Pulse techniques (Electronics) --- Telecommunication --- Digital media --- Signal processing --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Internet --- Digital techniques

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This volume examines both 'old media' treatment of crime legends: news reports, fictional film and television depictions, as well as 'new media' interactive discussions of them: versions and discussions circulating in Internet newsgroups and via electronic mail lists.

Crime in popular culture --- Crime --- Urban folklore --- Fear of crime --- Cities and towns (in religion, folklore, etc.) --- City and town life --- City folklore --- Urban legends --- Urban lore --- Folklore --- City crime --- Crime and criminals --- Crimes --- Delinquency --- Felonies --- Misdemeanors --- Urban crime --- Social problems --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Criminology --- Transgression (Ethics) --- Popular culture --- Electronic discussion groups --- Social aspects --- Folklore and the Internet