Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Folklore and the Internet 1
5. Chapter 1 Digitizing and Virtualizing Folklore 21
6. chapter 2 Guardians of the Living: Characterization of Missing Women on the Internet 67
7. Chapter 3 The End of the Internet: A Folk Response to the Provision of Infinite Choice 80
8. Chapter 4 The Forward as Folklore: Studying E-Mailed Humor 98
9. Chapter 5 Epistemology, the Sociology of Knowledge, and the Wikipedia Userbox Controversy 123
10. Chapter 6 Crusading on the Vernacular Web: The Folk Beliefs and Practices of Online Spiritual Warfare 159
11. Chapter 7 Ghosts in the Machine: Mourning the MySpace Dead 175
12. Chapter 8 Public Folklore in Cyberspace 194
13. Appendix Webography of Public Folklore Resources 213
14. References 231
15. About the Contributors 254
16. Index 257