Introduction: Pattern in the Virtual Folk Culture of Computer-Mediated Communication

Blank, Trevor J.

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“…Kumar et al (2011), while studying folk music in India, found that the new media technologies are helping folk artists becoming popular and are facilitating music production and distribution for their businesses. Blank (2012) sees the digital space as a capable medium of archiving the vernacular culture and documenting the folklore communications. We gather data from the contextual understanding of Uttarakhandi folk music to demonstrate how this music, when shared online, facilitates digital placemaking.…”

Section: Folk Music and Participationmentioning

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Reconceptualising Digital Placemaking: A Netnographic Study from the State of Uttarakhand, India

Sharma

Jaggi

2022

Journal of Creative Communications

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This article aims to contribute towards the theoretical and practical implications of ‘digital placemaking’ in the context of the state of Uttarakhand, India. In this study, we conducted a prolonged netnographic immersion with a popular online community on Facebook and analysed how the members make sense of digital placemaking in the cultural context of Uttarakhand. The data is collected using observations of the digital community and in-depth interviews of the administrators. We draw the theoretical inspirations from the perspective of ‘dialogue’ and ‘participation’ to further re-conceptualise digital placemaking and align its conceptual roots with the discipline of social change communication. Furthermore, using inductive insights, we propose key strategies shaping the process of digital placemaking.

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Section: Folk Music and Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconceptualising Digital Placemaking: A Netnographic Study from the State of Uttarakhand, India

Sharma

Jaggi

2022

Journal of Creative Communications

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“…This tradition of dissenting alteration has extended into digital communication in visual as well as verbal forms. Although social media is associated with global communication, many of the folklorized messages (also referred to as "memes") invoke nationalistic references set against digitally altered photographs of historic national icons Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and more contemporary figures such as Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama (Blank 2012;Bronner 2009;Duffy et al 2012;Oring 2014). …”

Section: Folklore As a Force In The Development Of City State Regiomentioning

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The Challenge of American Folklore to the Humanities

Bronner¹

2018

Humanities

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American Folklore consists of traditional knowledge and cultural practices engaged by inhabitants of the United States below Canada and above Mexico. American folklorists were influenced by nineteenth-century European humanistic scholarship that identified in traditional stories, songs, and speech among lower class peasants an artistic quality and claim to cultural nationalism. The United States, however, appeared to lack a peasant class and shared racial and ethnic stock associated in European perceptions with the production of folklore. The United States was a relatively young nation, compared to the ancient legacies of European kingdoms, and geographically the country's boundaries had moved since its inception to include an assortment of landscapes and peoples. Popularly, folklore in the United States is rhetorically used to refer to the veracity, and significance, of cultural knowledge in an uncertain, rapidly changing, individualistic society. It frequently refers to the expressions of this knowledge in story, song, speech, custom, and craft as meaningful for what it conveys and enacts about tradition in a future-oriented country. The essay provides the argument that folklore studies in the United States challenge Euro-centered humanistic legacies by emphasizing patterns associated with the American experience that are (1) democratic, (2) vernacular, and (3) incipient.

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“…[---] One expressive venue is not separate from the other; users employ them cooperatively and interchangeably. (Blank 2012: 4) Fortunately, the situation is gradually changing and folklorists have begun to show a growing interest in the numerous ways that folklore culture and vernacular expressions are mediated on the Internet (e.g., Blank 2012). Robert Howard (2013: 76, 82) stresses that it is important that folklorists in particular examine the construction and use of power relations, in other words, vernacular authority, in participatory media, where the institutional and vernacular often occur side by side.…”

Section: Studying Participatory History Culture On the Internetmentioning

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The aim of this article is to outline the main concepts used in cultural research, which denote the use of the past, to look into the trajectories of their mutual relationships, and to discuss the causes and development potential of the multi-faceted landscape of concepts that has emerged. Serving as an introduction to this thematic volume, this article creates the necessary conceptual framework for reading the following case studies. Two pairs of concepts are observed, which provide information on the modern cultural research of selected pasts: history culture and memory, and tradition-heritage. It is concluded that all the observed concepts could in the current situation be dealt with not only as fields of research, but as perspectives relevant for all areas of cultural research. Whether and to what extent the research of history culture, memory, tradition and heritage are entangled, is dependent on problem settings and objects of research, to which the respective research directions were originally related, but also connected with disciplinary contexts and academic traditions in different countries. In addition to impulses arising from inside research directions, the reason for the greater engagement of these directions could be the rise of interdisciplinary fields, which are not anchored to any specific concepts. A situation in which cultural research concepts with solid trajectories become replaceable occurs also in the case of transdisciplinary 'turns'. The research perspectives behind different concepts are best engaged within a specific field of research, which in turn have made way to the emergence of new concepts that bridge the established ones. In the context of this thematic volume, it is meaningful to refer to the increased cross-disciplinary interest in how the representation of the past in a variety of public spheres takes place. In this respect, concepts have been taken into use that refer to the 'public' at different levels: from official, state-sanctioned institutions to less formal, often locally based settings, and to particular, individualised contexts.

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Introduction: Pattern in the Virtual Folk Culture of Computer-Mediated Communication

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Reconceptualising Digital Placemaking: A Netnographic Study from the State of Uttarakhand, India

Reconceptualising Digital Placemaking: A Netnographic Study from the State of Uttarakhand, India

The Challenge of American Folklore to the Humanities

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