Digital Mythology and the Internet's Monster: The Slender Man
Vivian Asimos (Durham University, UK)
Digital Mythology and the Internet’s Monster: The Slender Man
Vivian Asimos (Durham University, UK)
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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