CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Red Velvet Cake, Email Forwarding, Adulterant

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 110
• Professor: Gary Mc Carron

Document Summary

Legends on the net : an examination of. Counterparts in literature and popular media: no real counterparts to legends in literature and popular media, due to localized nature of urban legend. Informality, repetitive structure, concrete detail quotidian content, empathetic nature of urban legends in cyberspace illustrates the connection that people feel to them as stories of human condition. Folklore in cyberspace: we tend to think of legends as developing from illiterate, pre- industrial folk society that die out in literate, industrial society, but tales survive in media and cyberspace. Authority through media: mediated nature of cmc legends lends them authority and legitimacy, confirming and disproving now part of online websites concerned with urban legends. Change in character of orality from pre-literate to literate society: altered course of verbal arts, plot development, characterization, evident in urban legends. Present in urban legends and email forwards of urban legends.