Global ETD Search

1	The Digital Folklore Project: Tracking the Oral Tradition on the World Wide Web. Bacon, Jasen 17 December 2011 (has links) (PDF) 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. internet e-mail forward digital folk objects digital folklore folklore Anthropology Communication Technology and New Media Folklore Social and Behavioral Sciences