Internet Is Real Life

Performing Folklore Online and Off

AvAnthony Bak Buccitelli

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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We often speak of a divide between online and offline cultures, despite growing recognition that the two are intertwined. Here, folklorist Anthony Bak Buccitelli challenges the idea of any divide at all in contemporary American culture. He argues that digital communications and behaviors are already deeply embedded in everyday expressive life and therefore are also already implicated in a variety of ways in the embodied performance and transmission of folklore. In other words, in contemporary American society, folklore seamlessly integrates online and offline.By treating the digital interface as a site at which embodied performance can take shape rather than just a point of contact with the online, Buccitelli argues for a critical renewal of core folkloristic concepts to meet the challenges of understanding modern networked life.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-17
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN:9780299361006

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Anthony Bak Buccitelli, interim assistant dean for graduate studies and associate professor of American studies and communications at the Pennsylvania State University, currently serves as director of the Pennsylvania Center for Folklore. His books include City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston.

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"With a heady blend of erudite scholarship, perceptive insights, and everyday examples, this book makes the essential point that digital technologies actually change who we are. An essential and transformative read." - Tok Thompson, author of Posthuman Folklore

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List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: The Pandemic Event: Rethinking Events, Audiences, and Context After Lockdown Chapter 2: Accessing the Archive: From Tradition Memory to Potential Memory Chapter 3: Check This Out: Mobile Devices and the Poetics of Sharing Chapter 4: Tap Here: Folk Art, Illusions, and Haptic Affordances Chapter 5: Fairy Tale as Fuck: Antimodern Media and the Cultivation of Affect Chapter 6: Get Outside and Move Around: Technological Structures and Cultural Heritage Chapter 7: Agentive Folk: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Tradition Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index