
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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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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