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Newslore : Contemporary Folklore on the Internet by Russell Frank (2013, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity Press of Mississippi

ISBN-101617039438

ISBN-139781617039430

eBay Product ID (ePID)164676874

Product Key Features

Number of Pages224 Pages

Publication NameNewslore : Contemporary Folklore on the Internet

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

SubjectMedia Studies, Internet / General, Folklore & Mythology, Popular Culture, Journalism

TypeTextbook

AuthorRussell Frank

Subject AreaComputers, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight14.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsEver the good reporter, Russell Frank has the scoop on all those posts that erupt everywhere about the latest concernspoliticians, disasters, and the cost of living. He reveals the posts as the crucial cultural contents of our in-boxes. He shows them to be lore at the heart of our contemporary culture and at the core of our psyches. With the sharp lens of the folklorist, he focuses on the meaning this material has to offer us in today's society and assuredly makes us look before we leap to the send button. His narrative is literally ripped from the headlines of the day and gives us the story behind the story.Simon J. Bronner, Distinguished University Professor of American Studies and Folklore, Penn State Harrisburg, and editor of Encyclopedia of American Folklife, "Ever the good reporter, Russell Frank has the scoop on all those posts that erupt everywhere about the latest concerns--politicians, disasters, and the cost of living. He reveals the posts as the crucial cultural contents of our in-boxes. He shows them to be lore at the heart of our contemporary culture and at the core of our psyches. With the sharp lens of the folklorist, he focuses on the meaning this material has to offer us in today's society and assuredly makes us look before we leap to the send button. His narrative is literally ripped from the headlines of the day and gives us the story behind the story." --Simon J. Bronner, Distinguished University Professor of American Studies and Folklore, Penn State Harrisburg, and editor of Encyclopedia of American Folklife

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal818/.607

SynopsisNewslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. These expressions come in many forms: jokes; urban legends; digitally altered photographs; mock news stories; press releases or interoffice memoranda; parodies of songs, poems, and political and commercial advertisements; movie previews and posters; still or animated cartoons; and short live-action films. In Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet author Russell Frank offers a snapshot of the items of newslore disseminated via the Internet that gained the widest currency around the turn of the millennium. Among the newsmakers lampooned in e-mails and on the Web were Bill and Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and such media celebrities as Princess Diana and Michael Jackson. The book also looks at the folk response to the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, as well as the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Frank analyzes this material by tracing each item back to the news story it refers to in search of clues as to what, exactly, the item reveals about the public's response. His argument throughout is that newslore is an extremely useful and revelatory gauge for public reaction to current events and an invaluable screen capture of the latest zeitgeist., "Poetry, I have insisted, is ultimately mythology, the telling of the soul's adventure in time and history." Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. These expressions come in many forms: jokes; urban legends; digitally altered photographs; mock news stories; press releases or interoffice memoranda; parodies of songs, poems, and political and commercial advertisements; movie previews and posters; still or animated cartoons; and short live-action films. In Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet author Russell Frank offers a snapshot of the items of newslore disseminated via the Internet that gained the widest currency around the turn of the millennium. Among the newsmakers lampooned in e-mails and on the Web were Bill and Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and such media celebrities as Princess Diana and Michael Jackson. The book also looks at the folk response to the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, as well as the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Frank analyzes this material by tracing each item back to the news story it refers to in search of clues as to what, exactly, the item reveals about the public's response. His argument throughout is that newslore is an extremely useful and revelatory gauge for public reaction to current events and an invaluable screen capture of the latest zeitgeist. Russell Frank, State College, Pennsylvania, is associate professor of communications at Penn State University and a columnist for StateCollege.com, as well as a former reporter and columnist for several newspapers. His work has been published in the Journal of American Folklore, Western Folklore, New Media and Society, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Journalism, Contemporary Legend, Rural Sociology, Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Hartford Courant, among other newspapers., Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. Russell Frank offers a snapshot of the items of newslore disseminated via the Internet that gained the widest currency around the turn of the millennium. Among the newsmakers lampooned in e-mails and on the Web were the Clintons, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

LC Classification NumberHM851