Books written by Trevor J. Blank
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Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet
S. Elizabeth Bird has noted that some forms of popular culture succeed specifically because of their resemblance to folklore (Bird 2006, 346). Slender Man's continuing popularity can likewise be attributed at least in part to its ...
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Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World
1970, 162–66; Stewart and Bennett 1991, 24–29). Digital is conceived as artificial and solely visual as it depicts time in alphanumeric symbols or icons framed in mechanistic rectangles instead of analog's naturalistic circles and hands ...
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The Last Laugh: Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age
By this definition, the first citizens of the Internet were digital immigrants (Baym 1993, 199 5; Dorst 1990; Healy 1997; Hine 2000; Rheingold 2000; Turner 2008; see also Bennett, Maton, and Kervin 2008). The terms “digital native” and ...
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Folk Culture in the Digital Age: The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction
Benkler, Yochai. 2008. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. http://yupnet.org/benkler/archives/8 (accessed 8 September 2008). Bennett ...
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Tradition in the Twenty-First Century: Locating the Role of the Past in the Present
Bronson, Bertrand Harris. 1954. “The Morphology of the BalladTunes (Variation, ... Dundes, Alan. 1984. Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Study of German National Character through Folklore. New York: Columbia University Press.
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Maryland Legends: Folklore from the Old Line State
On a cold, moonless night in February, sometime after the American Revolutionary War, an outoftown soldier named Charles Thomas Sims arrived at one of Port Tobacco's bustling seaport taverns, boasting to fellow patrons of his gold and ...
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Tradition in the Twenty-First Century: Locating the Role of the Past in the Present
In Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and Legend, 2 vols., ed. Maria Leach, 399–400. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Hultkrantz, Åke. 1960. General Ethnological Concepts. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger.
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Spring Grove State Hospital
This volume will reveal through a broad array of poignant historic images the extensive, complex, and fascinating history of Marylands oldest hospital.
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Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World
In a set of new, insightful essays, contributors Trevor J. Blank, Simon J. Bronner, Robert Dobler, Russell Frank, Gregory Hansen, Robert Glenn Howard, Lynne S. McNeill, Elizabeth Tucker, and William Westerman showcase ways the Internet both ...
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Folklore and Social Media
This book features twelve chapters ranging in topics from legend transmission and fake news to case studies of memes, joke cycles, and Twitter hashtag campaigns and offers fresh insights on digital heritage and web archiving.
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Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Folklore and the Internet
The Internet Audience: Constitution & Measurement. New York: Peter Lang. Blank, Trevor J. 2007. “Examining the Transmission of Urban Legends: Making the Case for Folklore Fieldwork on the Internet.” Folklore Forum 37: 15–26.
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Folk Culture in the Digital Age: The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction
Although traditionalists have argued that computer-mediated communication and cyberspace are incongruent with the study of folklore, Blank sees the digital world as fully capable of generating, transmitting, performing, and archiving ...
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Folk Culture in the Digital Age: The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction
Folklore in the Digital Age provides insights and perspectives on the myriad ways in which folk culture manifests in the digital age and contributes to our greater understanding of vernacular expression in our ever-changing technological ...
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Folklore and Social Media
“Pattern in the Virtual Folk Culture of Computer- Mediated Communication.” In Folk Culture in the Digital Age: The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction, edited by Trevor J. Blank, 1–24. Logan: Utah State University Press.
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The Last Laugh: Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age
Trevor J. Blank argues that computer-mediated communication has helped to compensate for users' sense of physical detachment in the "real" world, while generating newly meaningful and dynamic opportunities for the creation and dissemination ...