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Electronic Hybridity: The Persistent Processes of the Vernacular Web
- Journal of American Folklore
- American Folklore Society
- Volume 121, Number 480, Spring 2008
- pp. 192-218
- 10.1353/jaf.0.0012
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Through the example of a specific blog, this article locates a category of online discourse termed the “vernacular web.” Because the definitive trait of the vernacular is its distinction from the institutional, the vernacular web emerges in specific network locations as a communal invocation of alternate authority. Imagining those invocations as located communication processes, the concept of a vernacular web provides the theoretical language necessary for speaking about the complex hybridity that new communication technologies make possible.