Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This project focuses its discussion within the discipline of folklore by identifying Wattpad.com as a contemporary medium of online folkloric content. Wattpad provides its users with a text-based—and sometimes multimodal—means of communication via its interface that mimics traditional communication as we know it—a means founded in orality, literacy, and the archive. Wattpad users are creating new folktales that are nuanced with elements from Wattpad’s archive, which characterizes contemporary online folklore in a way that has not been fully explored. This project serves to identify the past and present discourses that inform such a discussion while also explaining the intricacies of Wattpad’s interface and user interactions. By studying and exploring such spaces, folklorists may better understand how folklore will continue to evolve into the future. </p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts (MA)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master's
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English and Theatre
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Eastern Kentucky University
- Year
- 2022
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Helton, Alisha Tess
Subjects
dc:subject × 9Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
-
- Copyright 2022 Alisha Tess Helton
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://encompass.eku.edu/etd/728
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:encompass.eku.edu:etd-1726