Folk Culture in the Digital Age: The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction

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261 Index Aglietti, Garin, 158, 160–163, 165n13 alternate reality games, 88–90, 95, 96n5 Arab Spring, 46–48. See also Egypt; Gaddafi, Muammar auctions, 167, 175–176, 193, 195, 197–200, 208n52 audience, 60–62, 64, 67–74, 76–77, 82n8, 100, 126–127, 203n5, 224–225 Bateson, Gregory, 138 Bauman, Richard, 59n10, 77–78, 80–81, 170–171, 179, 197 Ben-Amos, Dan, 131, 169 Berners-Lee, Tim, 40 bids, bidding. See auctions bulletin boards (electronic), 36–37, 121, 168. See also commenting “Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop” (meme). See Pike, John cell(ular) phones, 2, 20n4, 56, 93–96, 97n13. See also pay phones; smartphones China, 49–50 citizens, citizenship, 47, 52–53, 57–58 collecting (art), 166–168, 175–176, 178–183, 185–202, 206n28, 208n46 commenting (user), 7, 60–61, 65–68, 77, 155– 161, 178, 193, 195–196, 200, 224, 226–228 community, 8, 11–12, 18, 49, 53, 57, 87, 89, 134–135, 141, 143, 167–173, 176, 178–179, 185–187, 191–194, 196–197, 200–203, 205n20, 205–206n25, 221–223, 230 Computer Lib / Dream Machines (book). See Nelson, Theodor (Ted) Dégh, Linda, 169–170, 172, 203n5 delocalization, dislocality, 53, 55–56, 93–96 demographics and Internet penetration, 2, 4–5, 21n6, n7, 41, 209–210, 230 discussion boards, forums, groups. See commenting ; see also bulletin boards Dundes, Alan, 62–63, 116n1, 123, 131, 166, 171–172 Egypt, 15, 46–48, 52. See also Arab Spring; Mubarak, Hosni e-mail, 39–40, 84n30, 101–102, 105, 116, 168. See also forwards, forwarding (e-mail) emoticons, 71, 99–100, 109, 111, 165n11 Facebook, 5, 42, 46, 48, 60–61, 71, 77–78, 85, 92, 97n10, 123, 148n2, 168, 212–216, 222–228, 230–231 face-to-face communication, 3–8, 43, 57, 61, 70–73, 75, 78, 99, 101, 109, 112–113, 137 flash mobs, 85–89, 95, 96n1 folk groups, 7, 12, 16, 53–58, 99, 166, 168– 173, 186–187, 197, 202–203 folk process, 3, 8, 96n6, 98–99, 116n3 Folklore and the Internet (book), 13–14, 23–24n29 forwards, forwarding (e-mail), 70, 73, 85, 97n9, 101, 116n7, n8, 136 Gaddafi, Muammar, 51, 59n8. See also Arab Spring Glassie, Henry, 20n1, 43, 231–232n7 groups. See folk groups hegemony, 47, 49 Homebrew Computer Club, 26, 32–35, 37–39, 42–43 hybrid, hybridization, hybridity, 4–7, 19, 27, 38, 43–45, 164 hyperlinks, hyperlinking, 69–70 hypermedia, 30–31, 40, 42 HTML (hypertext markup language), 26, 31, 40–42 identity, 7, 22n18, 48, 51–58, 62–64, 77, 93, 95, 132, 170–171, 202, 222–223 institutional review boards (IRBs), 213–216, 218–221, 231n5, n6 Index 262 Internet access. See demographics and Internet penetration legends, 150–158, 160–164 macros, 8, 23n23, 88 mashups, 51, 59n6 Mason, Bruce, 172–173, 205–206n25 memes, 8–11, 23n22, 88 message boards. See bulletin boards Milgram, Stanley, 91–92 Mubarak, Hosni, 46–48. See also Egypt Nelson, Thedor (Ted), 27–32, 34, 39–40, 42–44, 45n1 netizens, 52–54. See also citizens, citizenship network, networking, 5, 12, 14, 26, 31–32, 34, 36–45, 47–48, 54–55, 60–61, 86–88, 90–91, 95–96, 97n9, 138, 140, 168–173, 176, 179. See also community; Facebook; Twitter; YouTube Occupy Wall Street (political movement), 7–8 pay phones, 2. See also cell(ular) phones; smartphones penetration. See demographics and Internet penetration phones. See cell(ular) phones; pay phones; smartphones photocopy lore, photocopier lore, 62–63, 102, 107–109, 119–120, 131, 171–172. See also Dundes, Alan Photoshop, Photoshopping, Photoshopped image, 8–11, 124–125 Pike, John (Lieutenant), 8–11 posting. See commenting Reddit, 8–9 repetition and variation, 8, 10–12, 23n22, n24, 63, 83–84n29, 104, 107–108 rumors, 150–151, 154–155, 160–161 social networking. See network, networking small world games, 90–91, 95 small world theory, 91–93, 97n11–12. See also delocalization smartphones, 2, 20n4, 85, 168. See also cell(ular) phones; pay phones Smith, Paul, 119–121 Tea Party (political movement), 7–8 texting, text messaging, 7, 85, 87, 216. See also emoticons Toelken, Barre, 75–76 tradition(s), traditional, 3, 63, 65, 68–70, 86, 90, 96n7, 98–99, 101, 116, 123–124, 129, 131, 166, 169–170, 179, 230–231 transmission, 4–5, 62–63, 80, 102, 116, 116– 117n9, 120, 135–136, 169. See also viral Twitter, tweets, (re)tweeting, 5, 46, 87, 136, 216 vernacular authority, 29...