legend tripping

From The Journal of Folklore Research Reviewed by David J. Puglia, The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg In a day and age when legends are as likely to be transmitted online as they are face-to-face, folklorists have begun assessing how our established concepts apply to the digital realm. The convergence of different forms of media has increasingly diminished ...

Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong’s Hat

Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong’s Hat By Michael Kinsella. 2011. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 208 pages. ISBN: 978-1604739831 (hard cover). Reviewed by David J. Puglia, The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg [Review length: 1035 words • Review posted on November 23, 2011] In a day and age when legends are as [...]

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Conscious Contact Through the Mythopoetic Web – Thoughts On Wired Ouija Boards & Liminal Events

“Warning: Please be aware that this is a real experiment using previously unexplored technology and as such we can give no guarantees regarding consequent results and aftermath. We have taken all necessary safety precautions but are legally obliged to make users aware that participation is purely at own risk.” – from the intro page of [...]

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The Surprising Online Life of Legends

A very interesting article/review of Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong’s Hat. From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Now, from the you-can-learn-something-new-every-day files, comes Michael Kinsella’s Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong’s Hat. Read it here: http://chronicle.com/blogs/pageview/the-surprising-online-life-of-legends/29221 From the article: The response of Joseph Matheny to Legend-Tripping Online suggests [...]

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The Surprising Online Life of Legends

Now, from the you-can-learn-something-new-every-day files, comes Michael Kinsella’s Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong’s Hat. Just out from the University Press of Mississippi, Kinsella’s book describes an intriguing Internet phenomenon: the dissemination online of versions of a well-established folk ritual, “legend-tripping.” Dating from centuries before an Internet became available, the “legend trip” is a [...]

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Factoid of the Day: Ong’s Hat

I love fictional places and I love when fiction is partially rooted in reality. For that reason, one of my favorite fictional places is the town of Ong’s Hat. It is especially interesting because it is also a “real” ghost town in the New Jersey Pine Barrens with its own folk history. The actual town [...]

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Site in French Version française Deutsch version Let’s be serious, let’s play! (5 / 5): The game is the weapon of subversion

The game war against the real On this new ideological spectrum, the alternate reality game (ARG) is proving a strategic piece. If the ARG seems to focus much of the game activists, not only because its structure allows the creation of products “independent” not too expensive (it can also be challenged when we see the [...]

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