Remediating Internet trivia : Net Art’s lessons in Web folklore

The Internet still debates over the value of its contents. Redefining traditional media within popular culture, it shatters the proper definition of mediation – based on so-called « legitimate” intermediaries. Web folklore is considered as perhaps one of the lowest forms of Internet culture ; yet, i...

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Main Author: Camille PALOQUE-BERGES
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Etudes Scientifiques Spécialisées Appliquées aux Communications Humaines, Economiques, Sociales et Symboliques 2010-01-01
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Online Access:http://www.essachess.com/index.php/jcs/article/view/8/8
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description The Internet still debates over the value of its contents. Redefining traditional media within popular culture, it shatters the proper definition of mediation – based on so-called « legitimate” intermediaries. Web folklore is considered as perhaps one of the lowest forms of Internet culture ; yet, it is everywhere. Observed and remediated by Net Art as trivial culture, it nonetheless shows a crucial potential in interrogating new mediations on the Internet.
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Remediating Internet trivia : Net Art’s lessons in Web folklore
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vernacular
popular culture
user
Net Art
title Remediating Internet trivia : Net Art’s lessons in Web folklore
title_full Remediating Internet trivia : Net Art’s lessons in Web folklore
title_fullStr Remediating Internet trivia : Net Art’s lessons in Web folklore
title_full_unstemmed Remediating Internet trivia : Net Art’s lessons in Web folklore
title_short Remediating Internet trivia : Net Art’s lessons in Web folklore
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vernacular
popular culture
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Net Art
url http://www.essachess.com/index.php/jcs/article/view/8/8
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