Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man : The Development of an Internet Mythology
ISBN: 9781137491138
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Social Science;

The Slender Man entered the general popular consciousness in May 2014, when two young girls led a third girl into a wooded area and stabbed her. Examining the growth of the online horror phenomenon, this book introduces unique attributes of digital culture and establishes a needed framework for studies of other Internet memes and mythologies.

Shira Chess is Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunications at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Georgia, USA.
Eric Newsom is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Central Missouri, USA.

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