CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Physical Culture, Pearson Education, Email Forwarding
8 Mar 2015
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In the article legends on the net , jan fernback examines a unique type of folklore urban legends and their transformation into cyberspace. The author used two main arguments to support her contention. First, many characteristics of contemporary urban legends are inherited from oral folklore that existed long time ago before technology appeared. Second argument is as mediated urban legends gradually proliferate, cyberspace plays an important role for primary oral culture to survive and represents actual meaning of orality and literacy. According to the article, professor jan brunvard had first coined the term urban legends since 1968. Urban legends are a unique type of folklore traditional beliefs, stories and customs of community that had been passed through the generations by words of mouth. Familiar cultural mores, values and beliefs are presented in folklores. Urban legends inherit many similar characteristics from folklores.
