Digital Mythology and the Internet's Monster

The Slender Man

AvVivian Asimos

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Exploring a prominent digital mythology, this book proposes a new way of viewing both online narratives and the online communities which tell them.The Slender Man – a monster known for making children disappear and causing violent deaths to the adults who seek to know more about him – is used as an extended case study to explore the role of digital communities, as well as the question of the existence of a broader “digital culture”. Structural anthropological mythic analysis and ethnographic details demonstrate how the Slender Man mythology is structured, and how its everlasting nature in the online communities demonstrates an importance of the mythos.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-02-25
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350181441

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Vivian Asimos is a scholar at alt-ac.uk, of which she is a co-founder. Her research focuses on the study of popular culture, and what contemporary narratives have to tell us about our current societies.

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Digital Mythology and the Internet’s Monster is one of the only major studies into contemporary folklore developed in online spaces. This makes it an important addition to scholarship on media and religion ... a strong and thorough piece of academic writing showing a meticulous understanding of the processes behind The Slender Man and his spread in the online sphere.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1. Mythology and the Digitization of Lévi-Strauss2. Introducing the Slender Man3. The Origin of the Slender Man4. The Origin of the Slender Man 5. Marble Hornets6. Playing the Slender Man7. Loving the Horror, Romancing Slender8. Laughing at the Horror9: A Dog, a Video Game and a Monster10: The Online Hive Mind’s Stories11: The Slender Man’s CultureConclusion