Folklore and Social Media
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Andrew Peck is assistant professor of strategic communication at Miami University. He is a media scholar and ethnographer whose research focuses on how digital media offer new possibilities for persuasion and everyday communication. His work has appeared in the International Journal of Communication, the Journal of American Folklore, and the edited collections Hashtag Publics and Slender Man Is Coming. Trevor J. Blank is associate professor of communication at the State University of New York at Potsdam. He is the editor of Folklore and the Internet and Folk Culture in the Digital Age, coeditor of Tradition in the Twenty-First Century, and author of The Last Laugh: Folk Humor, Celebrity Culture, and Mass-Mediated Disasters in the Digital Age and Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Folklore and the Internet.