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VOL. 3, ISSUE 1 (2021)
Relating folklore and internet: Concerns, reservations and objections
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Xanthippi Foulidi, Evangelos C Papakitsos
Abstract
This paper presents the Relation between Folklore and Internet, especially considering whether the latter is or should be a subject of study by folklorists or not. Many folklorists in the 20th Century had been opposed to the massive media, like television, cinema, radio, Internet and others, since such media use oral communication in a way that is opposed to face-to-face communication. In their reasoning, face-to-face oral communication constitutes a key-feature of folk culture. Some of them also thought that electronic technologies would help to replace traditional creation by the advanced consumer culture or loose folk culture, eliminating the traditional way of dealing with things or failing to fully present all the social functions of the traditional way. On the other hand, modern folklorists argue that Folklore can neither be associated solely with the culture of illiterate social groups of older times, like farmers or poor bourgeois, nor with particular older ways of communication. In this respect, Internet has become a communication tool that has replaced face-to-face communication with person-to-person one, has helped to preserve and disseminate older forms of folk culture and even create new ones. Therefore, Internet is worthy of being a proper subject of study for Folklore Science.
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Pages:14-19
How to cite this article:
Xanthippi Foulidi, Evangelos C Papakitsos "Relating folklore and internet: Concerns, reservations and objections". International Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Vol 3, Issue 1, 2021, Pages 14-19
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