Comparable Work - Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles about Digital Folklore

Primary Text: 

Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World. Ed. Trevor Blank. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2009.  

Suggested to me by Dr. Eric Eliason. The introduction by Blank himself is great and the articles inside are a good sampling of what kinds of things folklorists are looking at on the internet. 

Early Works:

Dorst, John. "Tags and Burners, Cycles and Networks: Folklore in the Telectronic Age." Journal of Folklore Research. 27.3 (1990): 179-190. Web.
Sent to me by Lynne McNeill and suggested as background knowledge of my subject. 

Howard, Robert Glenn. "Electronic Hybridity:  The Persistent Processes of the Vernacular Web." Journal of American Folklore. 121 (2008): 192-218. Web.
Sent to me by Lynne McNeill and suggested as background knowledge of my subject. 

Other Books:

Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet by Russell Frank.
Book suggested to me by Lynne S. McNeill. 

Michael Kinsella’s Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong’s Hat.
Book I found in our library's digital collections about The Online life of Legends. Read a review online. 

Personal Connections in the Digital Age by Nancy Baym.
Book I found through a review in New Directions in Folklore, the journal edited by Trevor Blank. 

You Tube: Online Video and Participatory Culture by Jean Burgess and Joshua Green.
Book I found through a review in New Directions in Folklore, the journal edited by Trevor Blank. 

Remix by Lawrence Lessig
Standard work on remix culture recommended by Dr. Burton. 

The Public Domain by James Boyle
Also talks about remix culture and recommended by Dr. Burton. 

Folk Culture in the Digital Age - Coming in October 2012.

Tradition in the Twenty-First Century- Coming in Spring/ Summer 2013.

The Last Laugh: Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age - Out Coming in Fall 2013.

Other Articles:

Foot, Monica. "Userpicks: Cyber Folk Art in the Early 21st Century." Folklore Forum. 37.1 (2007): 27-38. Print.
Article given to me by Lynne S. McNeill as suggested background research. 

Sikarskie, Amanda. "Introduction to Special Issue: Quiltmakers in the Digital Age." New Directions in Folklore. 9.1 (2011): 2-7.
Article I thought I'd read to see how the Internet is affecting and adapting the traditional from the journal edited by Trevor Blank. 


Alred, B. Grantham. "Identity in 10,000 Pixels: LiveJournal Userpics and Fractured Selves in Web 2.0." New Directions in Folklore. 8.1 (2010): 6-35.
Article that seemed relevant to understanding what has already been studied from the journal edited by Trevor Blank.