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Digital Mythology and the Internet's Monster: The Slender Man

Digital Mythology and the Internet's Monster: The Slender Man

Hardcover

PhilosophyMythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 1350181447
ISBN13: 9781350181441
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Feb 25 2021
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Exploring a prominent digital mythology, this book proposes a new way of viewing both online narratives and the online communities which tell them.

The Slender Man - a monster known for making children disappear and causing violent deaths to the adults who seek to know more about him - is used as an extended case study to explore the role of digital communities, as well as the question of the existence of a broader digital culture.

Structural anthropological mythic analysis and ethnographic details demonstrate how the Slender Man mythology is structured, and how its everlasting nature in the online communities demonstrates an importance of the mythos.

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