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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Academic and additional resources

CLASS READINGS

The following resources were from ANTH 452, Folklore & Expressive Culture's weekly lectures and readings

Living Folklore

Sims, Martha, and Stephens, Martine. Living Folklore, 2nd Edition : An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2011. Accessed August 8, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central.

Tradition, Genuine or Spurious

Handler, Richard, and Jocelyn Linnekin. "Tradition, Genuine or Spurious." The Journal of American Folklore. 97, no. 385 (1984): 273-90. Accessed August 8, 2021. doi:10.2307/540610.

academic resources

The following resources are from outside readings, journals, books, and articles

The Where, How and Who

Cocq, Coppelie. 2019. “The Where, How and Who of Digital Ethnography.” Folklore Fellows’ Network. Article FFN 53: 3-6. Folklore Fellows’ Network.

Hybridizing Folk Culture

Blank, Trevor J. 2013. “Hybridizing Folk Culture: Toward a Theory of New Media and Vernacular Discourse.” Western Folklore. 72 (2): 105-130.

Digital Folklore

de Seta, Gabriele. “Digital Folklore.” Second International Handbook of Internet Research, October 10, 2019, 167–83. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1555-1_36.

The Folklore Macroscope

Tangherlini, Timothy R. 2013. “The Folklore Macroscope: Challenges for a Computational Folkloristics.” Western Folklore, 72(1): 7–27., www.jstor.org/stable/24550905.

Digital Folkloristics

Tolbert, Jeffrey A., and Eric D. M. Johnson. 2019. “Digital Folkloristics: Text, Ethnography, and Interdisciplinarity.” Western Folklore, 78(4): 327–356. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26864167

Other resources

The following are helpful and fun resources to explore if you would like to know more about digital folklore!

Abstract Video

McNeill, Lynne. 2015. Folklore Doesn't Meme What You Think It Memes. YouTube. TEDxUSU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDJ2UJpKt4.

Recommended Read

Krawczyk-Wasilewska, Violetta. 2017. "Folklore in the Digital Age: Collected Essays." Jagiellonian University Press.

Internet Meme Database

https://knowyourmeme.com/

Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.

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