tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19019415838643630742024-03-13T20:24:56.994-07:00Give Thy Heart Before Thine EyeBri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-43785543468236334002012-04-16T23:35:00.001-07:002012-04-16T23:35:19.645-07:00<br />
These are the formal learning outcomes I expected to glean from this course over the semester. I will either link an outcome to a post I feel meets that outcome, link to a series of posts in brackets, add a dash and explain how I felt the outcome was met (if there is not a post to describe it), leave a blank if I feel like I could have better met this outcome somehow, or do a combination of some of the above.<br />
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1. <b>Gain “Shakespeare Literacy”</b> : Demonstrate mastery over fundamental information about Shakespeare’s works, life, and legacy<br /><br />
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<ul>
<li>Breadth (knowledge of a range of Shakespeare’s works) [<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/so-not-sonnet.html">Sonnets</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/serious-comedy.html">Tempest</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/henry-vee.html">Henry V</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/jews-in-england-and-shakespeare.html">Merchant of Venice</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/digital-close-reading.html">Othello</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/love-labor-lost.html">Love's Labour's Lost</a>]</li>
<li>Depth (more thorough knowledge of a single work) [Read ebook, listened to audiobook, and read comic version of Hamlet - lame I can't find any posts of mine about it; also <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/digital-close-reading.html">Othello</a>]</li>
<li>Performance (stage and <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/blood-gore-and-fighting-words.html">screen</a>) <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/blood-gore-and-fighting-words.html">[Henry V</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/performance-review-merchant-of.html">Merchant of Venice</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/loves-labors-lost-and-folklore-in.html">Love's Labour's Lost</a>]</li>
<li>Legacy (history, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/henry-vee.html">scholarship</a>, popular culture) [<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/hamlet-inception-and-jungian-philosophy.html">Hamlet scholarship</a>, I also read a comic version of Hamlet (pop culture), <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/scholarly-sources-shakespeare-and.html">Shakespeare and Folklore scholarship</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/comparable-work-annotated-bibliography.html">folklore</a>]</li>
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2. <b>Analyze Shakespeare Critically : </b>Interpret Shakespeare’s works critically in their written form, in performance (stage or screen) and in digitally mediated transformations. This includes<br />
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<ul>
<li>Textual analysis (theme, language, formal devices) [<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-know-were-past-whole-tempest-thing.html">Tempest</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/digital-close-reading.html">Othello</a>]</li>
<li>Contextual analysis (historical, contemporary, cultural) [<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/jews-in-england-and-shakespeare.html">Merchant of Venice</a>]</li>
<li>Application of literary theories [This is the one thing I feel I didn't really do at all.]</li>
<li>Analysis of digital mediations [<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/looking-forward-to-hamlet.html">Hamlet</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/understanding-bard.html">ebooks</a>]</li>
</ul>
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3. <b>Engage Shakespeare Creatively</b><br />
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<ul>
<li>Performance (memorization, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/shakespeare-baby.html">recitation</a>, scene on stage or video) [<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/performance-review-merchant-of.html">stage</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/settling-on-paper-topic.html">video</a>]</li>
<li>Individual creative work (literary imitation, art, music, etc.) [<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/reformatting-research.html">trailer 1</a>,<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-90-sec-trailer-video.html"> trailer 2,</a> <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/04/upgrading-folklore-for-digital-age.html">trailer 3</a>]</li>
<li><a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/give-n-take.html">Collaborative </a>creative project [<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/shout-out-to-alicia.html">peer editing</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/if-only-ophelia-had-had-social-network.html">helping Ashley</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/research-connections-ashley-and-ellie.html">connections</a>] </li>
</ul>
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4. <b>Share Shakespeare Meaningfully </b>(This includes engaging in the following:)<br />
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<ul>
<li>Formal Writing. Develop and communicate your ideas about Shakespeare clearly in formal and researched writing. [<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/paper-directions.html">Conference Paper/ Proposal 1</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/repurposing-outline-ideas.html">Conference Proposal 2</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/afa2012-submission-in-process-heaven.html">Conference Proposal 3</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/i-take-it-back-this-is-my-final.html">Conference Proposal 4</a>, </li>
<li>Informal Writing. This mainly means through regular online writing [See my blog and all these links to my informal writing]</li>
<li>Connecting. Share one’s learning and creative work with others both in and outside of class. [<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-facebook-tweethis.html">tweethis</a>, see also connect under outcome 5 for all the social proof - this was me sharing my work with others and their responses.]</li>
</ul>
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5. <b>Gain Digital Literacy: </b>Students use their study of Shakespeare as a way of understanding and developing fluency in 21st century learning skills and computer-mediated modes of communication. Those skills are grouped under the following categories.<br />
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<li>Consume - Effective and independent selecting, searching, researching, [<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/folklore-in-shakespeare.html">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/folks.html">Resources</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/settling-on-paper-topic.html">Contact list</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/twitter-list-of-digital-humanists.html">Twitter list</a>]</li>
<li>Create - Producing content that demonstrates learning and which can be shared for others to profit from. [<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/pen-is-mightier-than-sword.html">Favicon</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/01/merchants-v-moneylenders.html">Mobile Blogging</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/folk-are-changing-ways-we-learn.html">Folklore</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/progress-report-phases-1-and-2-of.html">Research 1</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/fear-of-folk.html">Research 2</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/paper-reflections.html">Research 3</a>,<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/reformatting-research.html"> Trailer 1</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/trailer-content-plans.html">Trailer 2</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/repurposing-outline-ideas.html">Research 4</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/i-take-it-back-this-is-my-final.html">Research 5</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-90-sec-trailer-video.html">Trailer 3</a>,<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/04/upgrading-folklore-for-digital-age.html"> Trailer 4</a>]</li>
<li>Connect - Engage with other learners within and outside of the class to develop thinking and share more formal work. [<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/poking-around-for-interest-in-my-topic.html">Social Proof 1</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/yes-it-worked-im-now-excited-to-look.html">Social Proof 2</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/patrick-ryan.html">Social Proof 3</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/no-way-google-alert-success.html">Social Proof 4</a>,<a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/tweethis.html"> Tweethis 1</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/tweethis-succes.html">Tweethis 2</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-facebook-tweethis.html">Tweethis 3</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-tweethis-results.html">Tweethis 4</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/repurposing-beginnings.html">Social Proof 5,</a> <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/american-folklore-society-annual.html">Conference proposal</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/notes-on-book-folklore-and-internet.html">Social Proof 6</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/social-proof-contact-list.html">Social Proof 7</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/nothing-makes-my-day-like-success-with.html">Social Proof 8</a>, <a href="http://zabriskiebri382.blogspot.com/2012/03/call-me-butter-cause-i-on-roll-why.html">Social Proof 9</a>]</li>
</ul>
<br />Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-27027671384593462652012-04-10T23:36:00.000-07:002012-04-11T09:24:09.604-07:00Upgrading Folklore for the Digital Age Final Trailer Video and Repurposed Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is the link to <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1baHbe3oVUrmLuWVqMz5L14gjUMlpRKxPts1WYw3NRwA/edit">my final AFS2012 submission</a>. </div>Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-14863563331452848152012-04-04T07:43:00.002-07:002012-04-04T07:43:31.293-07:00My 90-sec Trailer Video<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/EYinlAqgb6w?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-15764680138038398382012-03-31T20:43:00.000-07:002012-03-31T20:43:11.545-07:00I'm Soooooo Nervous<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bl8Fms8KWUQ/T3fOwCUEF7I/AAAAAAAAJqk/FM0NXzCYRZw/s1600/Capture.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bl8Fms8KWUQ/T3fOwCUEF7I/AAAAAAAAJqk/FM0NXzCYRZw/s400/Capture.PNG" width="400" /></a></div>Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-61863752405307803082012-03-31T20:41:00.000-07:002012-03-31T20:41:15.737-07:00I Take it Back... THIS is my Final Submission<span id="internal-source-marker_0.2731509208679199"></span><br />
<div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Upgrading Folklore for the Digital Age</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Internet has become our primary mode of communication. On the Internet, people participate in multiple communities by remixing and sharing information. Because of the remixing and sharing functions of the Internet, traditional folk tales, beliefs, legends, and material culture have been given new life. The Internet not only preserves and enhances traditional forms of folklore, but also gives rise to emergent genres particularly suited to the medium. This repository of lore lays virtually untouched by the majority of folklore scholars. The remixing and sharing of traditional folklore and the new genres emerging on the Internet deserve more scholarly attention. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Traditions require creativity in adapting to current situations. Eleanor Long’s research on personality types of performers of folklore highlights the need for creativity. When passing on a joke, preservators too often forget the punchline. Integrators use validating formulas to make the joke funnier to their audience and recreators create a whole new joke, following the original’s pattern. This creative alteration of tradition keeps it alive, as opposed to killing it by losing essential elements. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity is not just characteristic of face-to-face interactions. When folklore is adapted into literature, it often undergoes great change, such as the contemporary spin Shakespeare put on folktales about moneylending in his play, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Merchant of Venice. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shakespeare differentiates his version from earlier tellings by casting a Jew as the moneylender and making his story an oikotype of the Elizabethan Era when Jews had been expelled from England and folk superstitions surrounded them (Rogers). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In like manner, when people share texts or materials online, they often change or add details that make them relevant to their community: a phenomenon they refer to as “remixing’. Items of traditional folklore are remixed by many hands as they are shared online. The remix culture of the internet is the perfect venue for the creative preservation of tradition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are also emergent genres of folklore particular to the Internet. Examples of these genres are memes, photoshops, hashtag jokes, and items folklorists have yet to label like viral videos and their remixes. These genres are what Howard calls “amalgamations of institutional and vernacular expression” (192). As early as 1990, John Dorst asserted a collapse between consumer culture and the vernacular (188-89). His assertion challenges traditional conceptions of the definition of folklore, but this “penetration” of the vernacular is inherent to the nature of participatory media on the Internet and does not diminish its creativity (Dorst, 188). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Folklore and the Internet</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Trevor Blank writes, “Creativity is at the center of folkloristic inquiry, and the manifestations of online identity formation, artistic expression, folk religion, and the social dynamics of community construction are all important venues for analysis" (12). “Folkloric expression [on the internet] is reflective and serves as a 'mirror' of [contemporary] societal and cultural values” (Blank,4). It is this mirror that folklorists ought to be studying and teaching about if they want to keep the field relevant into the digital age.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sources:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dorst, John. "Tags and Burners, Cycles and Networks: Folklore in the Telectronic Age." </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal of Folklore Research</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. 27.3 (1990): 179-190. Web. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Ed. Trevor Blank. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2009. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Howard, Robert Glenn. "Electronic Hybridity: The Persistent Processes of the Vernacular Web." </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal of American Folklore</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. 121 (2008): 192-218. Web.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rogers, Jami. “Shylock and History.” </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Masterpiece Theater: Merchant of Venice Essays and Interviews</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. PBS. Web. 25 Jan. 2012.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span>Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-23696659876552992502012-03-31T15:13:00.000-07:002012-03-31T15:13:09.494-07:00Proposal Submission TODAY!Submitting this 500 word proposal to the American Folklore Society Conference in one hour. (The first paragraph is my 100 word abstract as well as my intro paragraph.) I know I'm my own worst critic but I think it's terrible. Wish I had more time to do background research before I submitted. I feel sick.<br />
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"The Internet has become our primary mode of communication. On the Internet, people participate in multiple communities by remixing and sharing information. Because of the remixing and sharing functions of the Internet, traditional folk tales, beliefs, legends, and material culture have been given new life. The Internet not only preserves and enhances traditional forms of folklore, but also gives rise to emergent genres particularly suited to the medium. This repository of lore lays virtually untouched by the majority of folklore scholars. The remixing and sharing of traditional folklore and the new genres emerging on the Internet deserve more scholarly attention. <br />
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Traditions require creativity in adapting to current situations. Eleanor Long’s research on personality types of performers of folklore highlights the need for creativity. When passing on a joke, preservators too often forget the punchline. Integrators use validating formulas to make the joke funnier to their audience and recreators create a whole new joke, following the original’s pattern. This creative alteration of tradition keeps it alive, as opposed to killing it by losing essential elements.<br />
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Creativity is not just characteristic of face-to-face interactions. When folklore is adapted into literature, it often undergoes great change. Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice draws on folktales about moneylending in exchange for flesh that probably came to Europe from the Orient during the Crusades (Ryan, 28). Shakespeare differentiates his version from earlier tellings by casting a Jew as the moneylender. This makes his story an oikotype of the Elizabethan Era when Jews had been expelled from England and folk superstitions surrounded them. Changing this detail of a popular folktale made Shakespeare an integrator.<br />
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The Internet is a culture of sharing. When people share texts or materials online, they often change or add details that make them relevant to their community. When this process of alteration is done online, it is called remixing. Items of traditional folklore are remixed by many hands as they are shared online. The remix culture of the internet is the perfect venue for the creative preservation of tradition.<br />
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There are also emergent genres of folklore particular to the participatory media of the Internet. These genres are what Howard calls “amalgamations of institutional and vernacular expression” (192). As early as 1990, John Dorst asserted a collapse between consumer culture and the vernacular (188-89). This “penetration” of the vernacular is particular to the nature of participatory media and the Internet (188). Examples of these genres are memes, photoshops, hashtag jokes, and items folklorists have yet to label like viral videos and their remixes.<br />
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In Folklore and the Internet, Trevor Blank writes, “Creativity is at the center of folkloristic inquiry, and the manifestations of online identity formation, artistic expression, folk religion, and the social dynamics of community construction are all important venues for analysis" (12). “Folkloric expression [on the internet] is reflective and serves as a 'mirror' of [contemporary] societal and cultural values,” a mirror that folklorists ought to be studying, if they want to keep the field relevant into the digital age (Blank, 4).<br />
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Sources:<br />
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Dorst, John. "Tags and Burners, Cycles and Networks: Folklore in the Telectronic Age." Journal of Folklore Research. 27.3 (1990): 179-190. Web.<br />
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Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World. Ed. Trevor Blank. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2009.<br />
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Howard, Robert Glenn. "Electronic Hybridity: The Persistent Processes of the Vernacular Web." Journal of American Folklore. 121 (2008): 192-218. Web.<br />
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Ryan, Patrick. Shakespeare’s Storybook Folk Tales that Inspired the Bard. New York: Barefoot Books, 2001. Print. "Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-44421632073845817042012-03-30T16:51:00.003-07:002012-03-30T21:03:33.840-07:00Comparable Work - Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles about Digital Folklore<h4></h4><h4>Primary Text: </h4><div style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World</i>. Ed. Trevor Blank. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2009. </div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><i>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. </i><br />
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</i></div><h4>Early Works:</h4>Dorst, John. "Tags and Burners, Cycles and Networks: Folklore in the Telectronic Age." <i>Journal of Folklore Research</i>. 27.3 (1990): 179-190. Web.<br />
<i>Sent to me by Lynne McNeill and suggested as background knowledge of my subject. </i><br />
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Howard, Robert Glenn. "Electronic Hybridity: The Persistent Processes of the Vernacular Web."<i> Journal of American Folklore</i>. 121 (2008): 192-218. Web.<br />
<i>Sent to me by Lynne McNeill and suggested as background knowledge of my subject. </i><br />
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<i>Book suggested to me by Lynne S. McNeill. </i><br />
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Michael Kinsella’s Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong’s Hat.<br />
<i>Book I found in our library's digital collections about The Online life of Legends. Read a review online. </i><br />
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Personal Connections in the Digital Age by Nancy Baym.<br />
<i>Book I found through a review in New Directions in Folklore, the journal edited by Trevor Blank. </i><br />
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You Tube: Online Video and Participatory Culture by Jean Burgess and Joshua Green.<br />
<i>Book I found through a review in New Directions in Folklore, the journal edited by Trevor Blank. </i> <br />
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<i>Remix </i>by Lawrence Lessig<br />
<i>Standard work on remix culture recommended by Dr. Burton. </i><br />
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<i>The Public Domain</i> by James Boyle<br />
<i>Also talks about remix culture and recommended by Dr. Burton. </i><br />
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<i>Folk Culture in the Digital Age</i> - Coming in October 2012.<br />
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<i>Tradition in the Twenty-First Century</i>- Coming in Spring/ Summer 2013.<br />
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<i>The Last Laugh: Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age - </i>Out Coming in Fall 2013.<br />
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<h4>Other Articles:</h4>Foot, Monica. "Userpicks: Cyber Folk Art in the Early 21st Century." <i>Folklore Forum</i>. 37.1 (2007): 27-38. Print.<br />
<i>Article given to me by Lynne S. McNeill as suggested background research. </i><br />
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Sikarskie, Amanda. "Introduction to Special Issue: Quiltmakers in the Digital Age." <i>New Directions in Folklore</i>. 9.1 (2011): 2-7.<br />
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Alred, B. Grantham. "Identity in 10,000 Pixels: LiveJournal Userpics and Fractured Selves in Web 2.0." <i>New Directions in Folklore</i>. 8.1 (2010): 6-35.<br />
<i>Article that seemed relevant to understanding what has already been studied from the journal edited by Trevor Blank. </i>Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-75089212060962592732012-03-30T15:40:00.002-07:002012-03-30T15:45:42.947-07:00Call Me Butter cause Im on a Roll: Why Digital Folklorists are the Best People to KnowI just got an email back from Trevor Blank who is pretty much THE leading scholar in the field of Digital Folklore (he wrote the book). He said he'd be happy to mentor me as I continue my research. He is really funny and enthusiastic too - he wrote four postscripts to his email (two in separate emails. Lol). <br />
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I'm going to send him my annotated bibliography of articles and books I think I should research and see if he has anything to add (or take away) and he has promised to hook me up with Jorgensen who he went to school with at IU. <br />
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Unfortunately I missed the boat on collaborating with them on their Digital Folklore panel for AFS2012 cause he already submitted it, but he says he's always happy to work with students. <br />
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He also let me know of work that is upcoming about Digital Folklore which I'm now excited to read in the coming years: "another edited volume, Tradition in the Twenty-First Century (which hits on some of your interests in Digital Age stuff impacting tradition) will be out in Spring/ Summer 2013, and my first solo-authored book, The Last Laugh: Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age will be out in Fall 2013". <br />
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Anyways, I'm excited to have his support. Thanks Trevor!<br />
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I told her the direction I am heading in (to advocate the remix culture of the internet being the perfect venue for both the dissemination of existing traditions/lore and the creation of new genres of folklore and thus requiring more attention from folkloristics) and <i>she confirmed that I'm heading in the right direction</i>s, saying: "Right now, your question of remixing is a good one--not only are traditional forms of folklore being revived on the Internet, but new forms, like image macros and memes, and coming to prevalence. There's not much general writing about it all yet--lots of conference papers and lots of individual case studies as articles and book chapters, but no prevailing work on it other that Trevor's book."<br />
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I asked her to point me in the right direction as far as sources for my research of folklore on the internet and methodology for studying Internet folklore, and told her what sources I had already found. She confirmed that I had "found many of the main resources out there" and gave me additional direction. She not only recommended a book and certain articles, but also <i>attached PDF copies of those articles to the email</i>! Talk about helpful! (and of course, I sent her a huge thank you email right back).<br />
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The sources she recommended will help me have a really solid background knowledge of the conversation currently revolving around Digital Folklore, which is important to the people running the AFS conference, as well as providing me with more authors to contact and test my ideas with - yay for information being connected to people. <br />
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<b>The sources she recommended were: </b><br />
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a book -<i> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1020431938">Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet</a></i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11400372-newslore"> by Russell Frank</a> which came out in April of last year (just a year ago).<br />
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"There's some early work in folklore studies that might be of interest: John Dorst's "Folklore in the Teletronic Age" (or something like that), and Rob Howard's "Electronic Hybridity". I'll attach both of them to this email--even if they're not terribly relevant to your work, AFS always appreciates it when people are aware of the early work that folklorists have done." By early, she means 1990 and 2008.<br />
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She also attached an article by Monica Foote at University of California, Berkley entitled "Userpicks: Cyber Folkart in the 21st Century published in Folklore Forum 37.1 in 2007.<br />
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She also let me know that there's a second book to <i>Folklore and the Internet</i> coming out this fall entitled <i>Folk Culture in the Digital Age</i>. Can't wait to read it!<br />
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Thank you Dr. McNeill! and thank you Dr. Eliason for recommending her as a contact! <span style="font-size: large;">I feel like such a lucky duck! </span>Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-20194618310969525272012-03-29T15:38:00.001-07:002012-03-29T16:06:15.047-07:00AFA2012 Submission In Process (heaven help me)Here's the link to <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1baHbe3oVUrmLuWVqMz5L14gjUMlpRKxPts1WYw3NRwA/edit">my rough draft submission for the conference</a>. I welcome comments and feedback. It needs a lot of work before the deadline tomorrow.<br />
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Update: Oh heavens! I feel slightly better. The deadline is Saturday, not tomorrow (Friday).Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-6990122546793306022012-03-27T16:09:00.000-07:002012-03-27T16:09:06.396-07:00Repurposing Outline / Ideas<blockquote class="tr_bq">This is how I write ideas. It's messy; I know. But here you have it... a paper in process. I have to rearrange my current content to fit this basic outline.</blockquote><br />
The idea of remixing the works of another is incredibly present on the internet. People are constantly remixing content they did not originate. (youtube examples, memes with photo stills from movies, etc).<br />
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The idea is not foreign to folklorists either. Folklore is creative traditions, beliefs, art, and stories that are shared person-to-person by the people. It’s difficult (if not impossible) to find the originator of content. But there are all kinds of people who pass it on and many of them remix it in their own style - adding details or just keeping the main theme and recreating a whole new story. (Eleanor Long’s storyteller types).<br />
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Folklore is not just remixed as it is passed on in the traditional sense. Artists, authors, playwrights and other creative geniuses borrow folklore and remix it in their work as well. Use examples of authors and artist who have done this. Possibly the world’s most famous author did this constantly - Shakespeare! (specifically use proverb from LLL play example but show other - borrowing stories from folklore origins, etc).<br />
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So why is the folkloric community ignoring the presence of folklore on the internet? People are remixing old stories and even old forms of folklore and sharing them with their online audience. Only a small number of folklorists have followed folklore to the internet - most are studying traditional folklore. Such a rich treasury of culture that is being ignored.<br />
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"Folklore theory holds that folkloric expression is reflective and serves as a 'mirror' of societal and cultural values; folklorists should therefore use this mirror to analyze society and culture. This ought to encourage a scholarly examination of the Internet, due to this format's status as a major agent of communication. Still, folklorists of the late twentieth century have not budged." (Blank, 4).<br />
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This folklore has the capability of keeping the discipline of folklore alive and also enabling us to understand our culture better. the unique lense of the folklore discipline is important in understanding what is happening culturally online.<br />
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Talk about how folklore online both preserves and challenges the “continuity of traditions”<br />
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also, include that these are emerging traditions and forms of folklore... amazingly creative as they preserve culture and relational ties. The description of the conference's theme states: "One of our field’s key concepts, tradition involves both conservation and change; the creativity that exists within tradition and shapes change invites closer examination." I want to somehow talk about the importance of change and adaptation in tradition, this creativity aspect, especially in a world, the majority of which moves at a very fast pace.<br />
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Perhaps quote and mention <a href="http://jeanajorgensen.com/wordpress/?p=144">Jorgensen's post</a> and her dissertation subject/ defense experience:<br />
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Folkloristics is a discipline obsessed with tradition; we tend to use traditionality as the measure of whether we want to study something in the first place. If you can’t prove that something is traditional, even if it’s an emergent tradition or something that is traditional to a tiny group of people, then folklorists would question why we’d want to study it. Somehow related is the fact that a lot of folklorists tend to be luddites; this is very chicken-or-egg in my mind. Is someone drawn to the study of tradition since they want to live a more traditional/old-school lifestyle, or is someone who studies tradition going to be more and more into the idea of incorporating what they study into their lifestyle? I doubt it’s as simplistic as either A or B, but it’s a trend I’ve noticed.Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-52721468491823761852012-03-27T15:51:00.001-07:002012-03-27T16:09:31.028-07:00Social Proof Contact ListGet this... My post from last week where I just took notes on the introduction to a book I read as I was repurposing my content got a ridiculously amazing comment... unsolicited attention from the <u>author</u> of the article! How cool is that?!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So you better believe he is on my contact list for THIS week! He's going to "hook me up" with other folkloristic articles which of course will lead me to even more contacts. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm working on repurposing my content first (at least writing the two required abstracts), because my submission is due <i>this Friday </i>(no pressure). But I've found ways that the following individuals will be helpful within my repurposed content (which I'm going to write a post about next):</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Jaquie Thursby here at BYU could tell me more about the use of folklore in literature/Shakespeare. This is important because part of my argument is that people remix folklore in literature all the time, as did Shakespeare, so who's to invalidate the remixing of folklore online? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Greg Kelly of Guelph University in Canada studies folklore online. I thought I'd look up articles by him and then contact him as I'm rewriting and lengthening my article. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Lynne McNneal is up at Utah State. She is all over the eFolklore idea. She will also be useful as I rewrite. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Dr. Burton suggested I take a look at Jeana Jorgensen who has been tweeting about digital humanities and folklore today:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anyways, lots of options! Can't wait to write Mr. Blank back!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
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- too academic sounding<br />
- too rehearsed<br />
- nothing to look at except my face (break up the monotony a bit)<br />
- tad too long<br />
- ties to only one student paper (and that tie won't work for repurposed content)<br />
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Ideas for 2nd draft:<br />
- less formal*<br />
- 90 seconds*<br />
- rehearse but make it casual<br />
- strips of paper with words/ ideas (fast and easy)<br />
- use a Shakespeare quote*<br />
- possibly do quick screen shot of presentation/ visual to enhance point (I really like this idea)<br />
- tie to both Ashley and Ariel (talk about folklore's ability to reflect culture, how essential it is to study our present folklore to understand our present culture, and how identity is tied to culture)*<br />
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*designates a requirementBri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-1857487880493344562012-03-27T11:00:00.000-07:002012-03-27T11:00:23.140-07:00Love's Labor's Lost and Folklore in the Digital AgeWe live in a remix culture. This is extraordinarily problematic when considering current copyright laws, but that is a discussion for another day. In our culture, we take things we've heard, seen, read, or experienced and incorporate them and remix them for our own purposes. In academia, this is as simple as quoting someone and expanding upon that quote to support your argument (and then citing them so as to protect their intellectual property). On Facebook, this could be taking a movie still and commenting on it with your own words to make a witty point. On YouTube, this is taking clips from several different romantic period movies and putting music over it to make a romantic music video.<br />
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There are a billion and a half ways we remix, but this concept of remixing wasn't born of the digital age. Authors have always borrowed from others authors, reference popular culture works to make a joke, and taken age-old fairy tales and made them their own (a nod to Mr. Disney).<br />
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The principle of remixing is inseperable from folklore, which defines itself as ever-changing as it is passed from person to person. Some people pass folklore on as is, without messing with it, but most will alter it in some way. It cannot be helped. Many just borrow themes from folklore and remix it to be entirely their own. This principle is one that folklorist, Elenor Long describes as different personality types/ attitudes towards folklore<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">"Eleanor Long, in her research on performers of folklore, found that there were patterns in narrators' attitudes towards their material. She labeled these attitudes 'personality types' and determined that there were four major classifications: perseverators, who seek to hang on to an inviolable tradition; confabulators, who idiosyncratically alter texts to fit their own personal tastes; integrators, who find a middle ground between the first two; and recreators, who form new texts from traditional materials." (<a href="http://www.essortment.com/types-personality-study-folklore-64775.html">Information found at essorment.com</a>). </blockquote>Shakespeare was no exception to the rule of remixing folklore. Love's Labor's Lost is a great example of how Shakespeare reuses and remixes folklore (in this case, the genre of proverbs) for his own purposes.<br />
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I thoroughly enjoyed BYU's production of Love's Labor's Lost set during WWII (unfortunately I did have to take off about halfway through Act 5 and so missed the last 15 minutes or so). The things that I thought most interesting was how they divided the lines of one character between so many - a definite remix of the play. But I really appreciated Shakespeare's punning off old proverbs like "an eel is quick" in order to make a joke (Act 1 Scene 2). The performance of this argument between Moth (played by a lady instead of a servant boy in this production) and Armando serves as a way to show Moth's jealousy of Armando's affection for Jaquenetta. It was quite a fun remixing of the play.Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-32527232879344734792012-03-21T21:59:00.000-07:002012-03-21T21:59:08.835-07:00Notes on a Book: Folklore and the Internet, Vernacular Expression in a Digital WorldI <i>loved </i>the introduction to this book! It makes many of the same arguments I was already thinking of and gives me points to spring of from where my argument differs. Here are some quotes:<br />
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"As the Internet developed as a communications facilitator, folklore emerged as recognizably on it as it did in "the real world." From the earliest moments of the modern Internet's existence, folklore was a central component of the domain, moderating the intersection of computer professionals with hackers, newfangled lingo, and the dispersal of stories, pranks, and legends (Jennings 1990)." (page 2)<br />
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"But while folklore emerged on the Internet, folklorists generally did not follow it" (3).<br />
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"only a small handful of thoughtful folkloristic articles on the burgeoning Internet culture appeared (Baym 1993; Dorst 1990; Howard 1997; Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1995, 1996; Roush 1997)" (3). - check out these studies if I can find them.<br />
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"Each year, the American Folklore Society's annual meeting boasts more papers and panels on folklore and the Internet than the year before, yet these papers have not found their way to a culminating publication. ... No comprehensive work that details the folkloristic approach to the study of the Internet has been produced to date" (3).<br />
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"'It is here, in the heat of a nascent technology,' writes Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, 'that we can contemplate what folklore's contemporary subject might be,' adding that 'electronic communication offers an opportunity to rethink folklore's disciplinary givens and to envision a fully contemporary subject'" (3).<br />
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Questions to consider about the study of Internet folklore:<br />
"What comprises vernacular expression? What do tradition, belief, legend, performance, and narrative mean in an Internet context? how does the Internet complicate notions of folk group, of audience, and of the dynamic, reflexive character of performance? As a mediatory agent, how does the Internet affect expression, engender unique folkloric material (and thus become a distinctive folk product itself), and reconfigure the nature of communication as a form of cultural maintenance and definition?" (5).<br />
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"The Internet has shifted the social constructions of community, often taking on its own unique characteristics and modes of expressions. Participatory media, notes Howard, offer 'powerful new channels through which the vernacular can express its alterity' (2008a, 192). Creativity is at the center of folkloristic inquiry, and the manifestations of online identity formation, artistic expression, folk religion, and the social dynamics of community construction are all important venues for analysis." (12).<br />
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"Many of the topics traditionally explored by folklorists -- such as humor, expression, tradition, narrative transmission, commemorations, religion, and ritual -- have taken on new or modified lives int eh digital world" (13).Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-7979669406327841472012-03-21T21:35:00.000-07:002012-03-21T21:35:55.583-07:00A Call for HelpTo be frank, I've been avoiding repurposing/ rewriting my paper. And here's why: I feel almost like I have to start from scratch.<br />
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My first argument: The church's condemnation of the Elizabethan stage was because of Shakespeare's use of powerful folklore (part 1) which is similar to educators' condemnation of "the Internet" because of it's use as a powerful vehicle for folklore (part 2).<br />
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But now, I want to focus on the audience of folklorists and aim more for getting them to study folklore <i>on the Internet</i> which is something that is just not common in the field, that prefers to study the weird and archaic over folklore that the majority of people participate in because that <i>feels </i>more like popular culture or something (still trying to understand why people don't study folklore forms on the Internet when they're so obvious). But it's not like anyone is outright condemning or fearing the Internet or even saying that it isn't a valid vehicle for folklore. They're just plain not heeding it. Most of the studies are about folklore transmitted face to face but they're missing out on this rich world of new folklore genres and forms.<br />
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So, I feel like my original argument doesn't fit anymore. My new aim is a lot like my part 2 of my original argument because I have somewhere to go with it - give internet folklore more attention, which they're not doing, but I'm not sure how to ground this in Shakespeare anymore and I feel like I did this so powerfully before.<br />
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I wonder if there's a place in Shakespeare that challenges traditional ways of doing things. The theme of the conference I want to present at is The Continuity and Creativity of Culture and in the description, they seriously focus on the former, even calling folklorists "workers in a discipline dedicated to the documentation of continuity" and stating that, "folklorists often have an intimate view of the creativity necessary to preserve the continuity of traditions." I think I would like to push off of and almost against this notion a bit (even though it makes me nervous to do so) by arguing that folklore as a discipline tends to focus on long-standing tradition and does not look hard enough at emerging traditions and forms of folklore, amazingly creative as they are in preserving culture and relational ties. The description of the conferences theme states: "One of our field’s key concepts, tradition involves both conservation and change; the creativity that exists within tradition and shapes change invites closer examination." I want to somehow talk about the importance of change and adaptation in tradition, this creativity aspect, especially in a world, the majority of which moves at a very fast pace.<br />
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Do these ramblings make any sense? Does anyone have ideas of where to start with the Shakespeare side of things or an idea of how I can just slightly alter my original argument to fit within the constraints of my current argument?Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-90748052015064618602012-03-19T16:01:00.000-07:002012-03-19T16:01:25.747-07:00American Folklore Society Annual Conference Submission?I'm looking around for conferences I could submit my paper to. I'm still in the process of redirectioning and repurposing my paper, so I haven't yet written an abstract. I'm just looking for an audience for when I do. <div><br />
</div><div><u>Missed Opportunities:</u></div><div>I <i>just</i> missed the boat for the <a href="http://www.afsnet.org/events/event_details.asp?id=169443">Western States Folklore Society annual conference</a>. It's being held the day I graduate (April 20th) in CA, but abstracts were due back in February and it costs a fee just to submit. It's too bad because they <i>were </i>accepting student papers, and I would have loved to aim for something like this. I also just missed the <a href="http://www.folkalliance.org/events/">Folk Alliance International conference</a> which took place at the end of February, but I couldn't find any information about paper submissions anyways. There is a <a href="http://sussexfolktalecentre.org/2011/08/04/folklore-and-fantasy-conference-2012/">Folklore and Fantasy Conference</a> being held in the UK on April 15th. I missed the deadline for that in late January, but I think it would've been a great audience for my subject. I might still write them and see if my topic would've even been interesting to them (just by asking if they take late submissions). Another conference I would've loved to have presented at is <a href="http://www.wku.edu/studentresearch/conference.php">WKU's student research conference</a> which seems much less intimidating to me than others, but again the deadline was in February and the conference is this Saturday. </div><div><br />
</div><div><u>Major Possibility: The American Folklore Society Annual Conference</u></div><div>I finally found a HUGE conference who's deadline hasn't passed though! The American Folklore Society, or the AFS, produces <a href="http://www.afsnet.org/default.asp?page=AnnualMeeting">an annual meeting each October</a> that brings together more than 700 folklorists from around the world to exchange work and ideas, and to create and strengthen friendships and working relationships. This year's conference will be held on October 24-27 at the historic Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, Louisiana. This year's theme: "<a href="https://afsnet.site-ym.com/?2012AMTheme">The Continuity and Creativity of Culture</a>" is <i>perfect </i>for my paper's topic! I can challenge the assumption implied in the theme's description that the "disruption" of "cultural continuity... threaten[s] well-being and long-standing social interactions" by talking about online culture's ability to enhance and further relationships and social interactions through the transmission of folklore. </div><div><br />
</div><div>If I choose to submit to this conference, I have till March 31st to solidify my direction, do my social research, finish my paper and make sure that it follows <a href="https://afsnet.site-ym.com/?page=AMReviewProcess">the guidelines set for submissions</a>, write<a href="https://afsnet.site-ym.com/?page=2012AMCheckPaper"> both a 500 word abstract and a 100 word abstract</a> and there is a <a href="https://afsnet.site-ym.com/?2012AMregrates">registration fee of $95</a> (not to mention, if my paper was actually selected, travel costs to get to New Orleans in October - though there are some grants I could apply for). I would be informed by June 1st, if my paper was accepted. It's a tad intimidating though... Do you guys think I should go for it? </div><div><br />
</div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Oh and just as a reminder to myself, there are more <a href="http://www.wku.edu/folkstudies/important_folklore_links.php">folklore resources I need to remain aware of here</a>)</span></div>Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-48532944380626528632012-03-16T09:40:00.000-07:002012-03-16T09:40:46.005-07:00Research Connections - Ashley and Ellie<a href="http://lewisashley382.blogspot.com/">Ashley</a> and <a href="http://custermiklavicarielle382.blogspot.com/">Ellie </a>and I couldn't meet via Google Hangout as planned, so we did a group chat to try to find a string of logic or similar theme throughout all of our papers that we could use to tie them together. We came up with some really great ideas during our chat. I've posted the chat below so you can view our process. I've highlighted major theses development.<br />
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<div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:12 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="mailto:ashley.lewis.2432@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">ashley.lewis.2432@gmail.com</a> has joined</span></span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Arielle has joined</span></span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: hey! :)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: :-)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">sorry about that</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: np</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: I have a project due next class so I will need to get off around 10:30</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">what is going on?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:13 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: ok we'll make it short</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: what has been said so far</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: we waited for ya</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: oh thank you</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: so let's discuss connections to your paper first ellie</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">ashley, what connections did you see in your paper to ellies and ellie to ashley?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:14 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">I thought you both drew on the concept of the persona and talked about not being able to take control of identity in the characters of ophelia and hamlet</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: I agree</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:15 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">ashley.lewis.2432</span>: exactly, the psychological affects of situation</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">*effects</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:16 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: I saw a connection from what Ashley saying about Ophelia not being able to express herself -as an inability of the unconscious and the conscious self to integrate. Both Hamlet and Ophelia could not integrate and therefore their "self" dies</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">it was very fun to read your paper Ashley</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:17 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">ashley.lewis.2432</span>: Thank you :)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: :-) YW</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">What about you Bri</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">what are some obvious connections between the two</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">of our papers to yours</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">do see any?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: yep. but it was tricky cause i changed directions a bit with where i'm going with the ending</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:19 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: Ashely we just lost Bri</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: wait</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">found it</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: you got it</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">!</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: weird</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:20 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">technology. anyways</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">i wondered if the revenge cycle was something that showed up in folklore so I did some preliminary research and it does. that's a loose tie we could follw up on...</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: cool</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:21 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: but i think the better one is the importance of ability to work with images (and mediums: ie. new images that could help hamlet besides his father and new tech that holds new<br />
kinds of folklore) thatare unfamiliar to us instead of hanging onto the familiar: father and traditional means of studying folklore.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">does that make sense?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: sure</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">ashley.lewis.2432</span>: yes</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: so how would we connect that with Ashley's paper</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">...that Ophelia was unable to integrate the images of the unconscious</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">because the males in her life</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">would not let her?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:22 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: yeah, i think we could work that angle as a thread through all our papers</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">do you think ashley?</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:24 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);">or</span><span style="background-color: yellow;"> talk abou tthe development of identity. hamlet with his unconscious images, ophelia with choosing to find her own identity instead of one defined for her, and modern folk through the internet</span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"> </span></span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">(i talk about a fear of defining yourself online in my paper)</span></span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-weight: bold;">ashley.lewis.2432</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);">: That might work.</span><span style="background-color: yellow;"> I feel like with all three papers there is an influence of words and information upon making decisions and forming opinions, as well.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:25 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: can you explain further?</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:26 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);">: so Bri </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">in other words you are saying...media can help us to become whole by giving us the power to define ourselves and integrate those unconscious images that rise through the stories that are displayed?</span></span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: yes, instead of having others define us by not knowing much about us...</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">as well</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: hmm...I like it</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:27 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">couldn't academics argue that the interenet is the wrong place to define ourselves</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">because we can give a false view of who we are</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">and integrate the wrong images?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: couldn't you do that anywhere just as much as the internet?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">ashley.lewis.2432</span>: With your paper, you talk about how folklore affects people, which you show nicely through the historical references (such as the treatment of Jewish people) and through the modern references such as the rat story</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:28 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: @ashley, right.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">the "power" of folklore</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">@arielle - or do you mean like people pretending to be someone else entirely and that being easier to do on the internet, i guess we could present that as a pro/con argument as well</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:29 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: yes</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">ashley.lewis.2432</span>: Yes, and with Ellie's paper, the power of symbols upon Hamlet and his decisions.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: @ashley, and then hamlet and her dad and brother's words upon ophelia?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:30 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">ashley.lewis.2432</span>: Yes</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: yeah, that is another way to string the arguments together.</span></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:31 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969);">: </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">so maybe we should take it from this angle-in times past folklore was shared through speech-media has given us a different avenue to display folklore. we should be studying (paying attention) to these stories as they will help us to integrate the images, defining a healthier sense of self, that are important to wholeness just as the verbal stories of old did for its people</span></span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:32 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: what about ophelia though?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: thats where "defining a healthier sense of self"</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">comes into play</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">was what I was thinking</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: ok i can see that</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: but we could take it a step further</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: so that we don't drown in a loss of identity ;)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: haha</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">ashley.lewis.2432</span>: That would work. haha</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: exactly</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: how could we take it a step further?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:33 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">you were saying</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: well, you just did!</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: ah. lol</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">I think we have two solid lines of logic then. We need to wrap up since Ellie has to go. So anything else you want to add?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: sorry</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: oh no!</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">not at all!</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">ashley.lewis.2432</span>: no problem :)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: i think weve done GREAT work here!</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">ashley.lewis.2432</span>: agreed :)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: cool. thanks ladies</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: Do you two mind if I post this conversation?</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;">10:34 AM </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: nope</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: To show our process</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">ashley.lewis.2432</span>: That would be great.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: sweet. post it at yoru blogs too if you want!</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">:)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: I will most likely make a post linking to yours</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;">;-)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: ok! :)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: cool</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">ashley.lewis.2432</span>: As will I</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">Arielle</span>: ok see ya guys!</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: Have a great weekend you two!</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Arielle has left</span></span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">ashley.lewis.2432</span>: Bye! :)</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold;">me</span>: bye</span></div><div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #888888; display: block; float: left;"> </span><span style="display: block; padding-left: 6em;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="mailto:ashley.lewis.2432@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">ashley.lewis.2432@gmail.com</a> has left</span></span></div>Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-11015445553297014092012-03-15T20:09:00.000-07:002012-03-15T20:09:08.103-07:00Technology FailAshley, Ellie, and I tried to do a Google hangout to discuss ideas for linking our papers together tonight, but it just didn't work. Hangout was acting super strange. We gave it a good shot though.<br />
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So we've decided to read each other's papers tonight and look for ways to connect our ideas together and discuss that in the morning during classtime via a group chat. I wont' be able to make a screencast of it because I have to use my husband's computer and he'll have it at work, but we'll report our ideas on our blogs.<br />
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sigh. oh technology.Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-21091185920475453772012-03-13T08:56:00.001-07:002012-03-13T09:03:12.256-07:00Paper directionsAfter a long chat with Dr. Burton, my professor, I think I've got a good direction and audience for my paper. I'm going to try to aim for graduate students of folklore with the intent of persuading the future folklore community that folklore on the Internet needs to be taken more seriously and studied more widely. <br />
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The best format that is most likely to reach my intended is, ironically, not a digital one. So I'm aiming to create a longer paper and a twenty minute presentation and to find some folklore conferences where I can submit an abstract. I have a ton of research to do to better my paper, much of it social, in the next four weeks. But maybe my paper can really have an impact. <br />
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The Shakespeare context angle works great to support my argument and I can throw the audience a bone here and there with a supportive quote from the primary text. <br />
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Overall, I'm pretty stoked for what comes next. My game plan is to contact two professors of folklore, one here, one at the U, and read the book Dr. Eliason recommended (at least the intro and skim the rest). Then check our whatever resources they direct me to and really solidify my paper. Then create an abstract and start submitting to conferences. Then create a presentation and find another way to test the waters and validate my ideas through social proof. Then speak at a conference or two and see what happens from there. The final steps may take place after the course is finished but that's ok with me because I'm passionate about the subject! <br />
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Also, I want to do a google hangout with whoever from our class wants to see if we can connect our ideas. I'm going to email ashley and Ellie do far but if anyone else wants to hang out sometime this week send me your gmail address. I'm going to make a screen capture of it so we can reflect back on the ideas. Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-6169878765610547802012-03-12T16:35:00.001-07:002012-03-12T16:35:26.227-07:00Love&apos;s Labor&apos;s LostI'm loving this play. I just finished act three. I think my favorite character would have to be Boyet, the lord attending to the princess. I'm assuming he is of the same class as the ladies because of how he interacts with them at the end of Act 2 Scene 1. This scene is so great... All the guys hanging back to ask about the girls and Boyet's sparring of wit with Longaville. <br />
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I love how he clearly sees what's going on and all the girls are in denial:<br />
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Princess: "Come, to our pavilion. Boyet is disposed" (line 263). <br />
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Maria: Thou art a lovemonger (going to have to use that word sometime in the near future) and speakest skillfully. (line 268). <br />
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Katherine: He is Cupid's grandfather and learns news of him (line 269). <br />
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Boyet (to ladies): what then, do you see?<br />
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Maria (in response): ay, our way to be gone (lines 276). Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-35259560308943784082012-03-08T18:04:00.000-08:002012-03-08T18:04:32.702-08:00Repurposing BeginningsI've decided to focus on the folklore aspect more in my paper. As I mentioned before, I think it would be interesting to see how correct I am in my assumption that folklorists are resistant to breaking from tradition. So I stopped by my folklore professor's office for a chat.<br />
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We talked about whether he considers things like memes, themed photographs, and some Pintrest stuff folklore as well as stories people tell on their blogs and such. He said the line is fuzzy. It's not that he is resistant to changing the definition of folklore; just that he doesn't really think about it much. He said most people in his field are gathering folklore via the traditional means (face-to-face) and the same goes for the majority of his students. He hypothesized that this might be because folklore archives and other collection methods just haven't updated to store these kinds of things: in the William A Wilson folklore archive here at BYU, you have to have a physical copy of your project. These things just aren't stored online. So, he said, for example, you couldn't use an animation or a Youtube video. They're not stored online or digitally.<br />
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He's not sure how others in his field feel about the "issue" and so to his knowledge it's not really divided into two camps of opinions, more just that some might choose to explore this avenue, but most don't.<br />
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He did give me a list of people that I should talk to and one book to check out:<br />
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The book is called Folklore and the Internet and contains essays written by a number of folklorists. It is edited by Trevor Blank.<br />
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Jaquie Thursby here at BYU could tell me more about the use of folklore in literature/Shakespeare.<br />
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Greg Kelly is a contact of his at Guelph University in Canada who studies folklore online.<br />
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And I'm most excited to talk to Lynne McNneal is up at Utah State. She is all over the eFolklore idea.Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-70485225624453220832012-03-06T16:11:00.002-08:002012-03-06T16:25:18.505-08:00Reformatting ResearchOk, I've done some research and I can't find evidence of someone ever doing something like this before. It's like the tweethis idea, but on video and all strung together by links to peer's videos embedded in your own video. At least, that's how I conceived it... It'll make more sense when you see it... I hope.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">This first video is the reformatting of my paper. At the end (and I know there are more creative ways to do this that I haven't figured out yet), there is a link to the next video in the "research series". This would be a peer's video. For this I have pretended that I am Ashley and led into her topic from my own, just so you can get the idea. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_aB-5hh3C0E/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_aB-5hh3C0E?version=3&f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_aB-5hh3C0E?version=3&f=user_uploads&c=google-webdrive-0&app=youtube_gdata" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(One note I would add when/ if you do your own video linked to a peer's video is pause in the end position for a good 10-15 seconds and leave that link up the whole time so people really understand that they're supposed to click on it. That's one of the mistakes I feel I made with mine.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's the video where I pretend I am Ashley. I've just done a snippet here, so you can see how you might lead into your own topic from a peer's topic. I have not done a complete video reformatting Ashley's ideas. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/rCbLFW9DBZ4?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />
Let me know what you think of this idea! I'm thinking we'd do them with better cameras and not with a kitchen and baby noises in the background. ;) We'd them look a tad more professional and of course we would have our ideas memorized, instead of reading them, like I have here. It'd take some practice, but I think it could end up being really neat!<br />
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Oh and just so you know I am a good mom and don't just ignore my son and do homework all day, here's a video of us "playing." LOL.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/GWqdvqO4t-s?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1901941583864363074.post-51454394783210910392012-03-06T10:04:00.002-08:002012-03-06T15:04:20.514-08:00If Only Ophelia had had a Social Network<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Throughout this post, I've included images of Ophelia I've found on Flickr that were creative-commons licensed. I've linked back to the artists page in the captions underneath. </span></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> photo courtesy of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgangfoto/2232965165/sizes/m/in/photostream/">Woflgangfoto</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Gosh, I've gotten distracted looking at artwork (and movie clips) of Ophelia for at least an hour! <a href="http://lewisashley382.blogspot.com/">Ashley's blog</a> gave me a spring board and I dived right in. These portraits of Ophelia are absolutely mesmerizing! And how disturbing is that!? What is it about a suicidal girl that has <i>so</i> captured the imagination of artists for centuries that they cannot stop recreating her?<br />
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</tbody></table>I think <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f8r67f-ykpdJTCvVDCOZjZlS4IWussfmgEbD2lJOwwk/edit">Ashley's paper</a> is very significant in this respect and boy does she ever have an audience to draw upon! Ashley does great character analysis of Ophelia, a character who's personality is not her own but is made up of the intents and wishes of others. Ashley quotes an article in her paper that sums it up rather well: “Indeed with her identity constructed always in reference to another, Ophelia is, in essence, nothing, an empty cipher patiently waiting to be infused with whatever meaning the particular mathematician should require. Lacking personal ego boundaries of her own, Ophelia seems compelled to absorb whatever psychic identity is thrust upon her (Dane 410-411).”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"> </span> photo courtesy of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/37167854@N08/4424031477/sizes/m/in/photostream/">Ло</a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>But Ashley, I don't think you need to draw stretched allusions to identity theft on the Internet to find an authentic audience for your ideas. You have one! Our culture is obviously obsessed with the idea of dead females (or I might argue the loss of the feminine). Just take a look at some popular movies that have captured the public imagination in the last few years: Inception (dead wife), The Dark Knight (dead fiance), Harry Potter (dead mom)... In just the last year, Hugo (dead parents), The Descendants (seriously injured wife), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (missing woman), Breaking Dawn (girl who essentially dies/ gives up life? by becoming a vampire - ok maybe that's a stretch), etc. People are really obsessed with this idea of the missing or dead feminine. "Frailty, woman is thy name!" - yes, but only because we keep killing her off!<br />
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</tbody></table>It might be interesting for you to look into this idea more - is the loss of Ophelia's identity significant for the other characters in the play. Music and flowers are feminine-infused objects and so the fact that Ophelia uses them once there is no hold or pressure on her is interesting. Also, in folklore and mythology, the ocean and water is associated with the womb and so the mother or the feminine. So Ophelia dying in water is like returning to the feminine because the world was too masculine and violent for her to remain there.<br />
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</tbody></table>I think Ashley is absolutely correct that this paper is incomplete without artwork and movie clips to back it up. There are hundreds of paintings, photographs, etc that have been created around Ophelia and they say so much more than you can in a ten page paper! Ashley, I think you could have the most impact on potential audiences by creating your own artwork perhaps and writing short blurbs about it.<br />
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Wouldn't it be wonderful to show Ophelia's loss of identity through artistically set up photographs that suggest Ophelia's loss of identy by either not having her whole self in the frame or just having items that suggest her floating on water or something? How eerie would that be?! Or show how she is just a cipher into which others pour their own identities by a photo of Ophelia looking into a mirror and seeing the men in her life or a basin with a woman painted on it with men inside. I've been just obsessed with checking your blog just to see the photos of Ophelia that you post. They are positively chilling. I think you could really make an impact by creating your own artwork and linking back to what you've written. You can find audiences on flickr and other photo sharing sites. There are social networks for artists like <a href="http://socialartsnetwork.ning.com/">SANe</a> and <a href="http://www.artists2artists.net/">artists2artists</a>.<br />
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</div>Bri... only shehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383857581525387196noreply@blogger.com0