The Digital Folklore Project: Tracking the Oral Tradition on the World Wide Web.

<p>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.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

MA (Master of Arts)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis - unrestricted

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Bacon, Jasen

• internet
• e-mail forward
• digital folk objects
• digital folklore
• folklore
• Anthropology
• Communication Technology and New Media
• Social and Behavioral Sciences

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright by the authors.

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1398

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-2589