The last laugh: folk humor, celebrity culture, and mass-mediated disasters in the digital age
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1. Verfasser: Blank, Trevor J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Madison The University of Wisconsin Press c2013
Schriftenreihe:Folklore studies in a multicultural world
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: cyberspace, technology, and mass media in the twenty-first century -- Searching for connections: how and why we use new media for vernacular expression -- Changing technologies, changing tastes: the evolution of humor and mass-mediated disasters in the late twentieth century -- From 9/11 to the death of bin Laden: vernacular expression and the emergence of web 2.0 -- "Intimate strangers": the folk response to celebrity death and falls from grace -- From sports hero to supervillain: or, how Tiger Woods wrecked his car(eer) -- Dethroning the king of pop: Michael Jackson and the humor of death -- Laughing to death: tradition, vernacular expression, and American culture in the digital age -- Afterword: predictions on future trajectories of vernacular expression and new media
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 156 p.)
ISBN:0299292037
9780299292034

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