… the role of mythology in the contemporary world. Whether anthropologists are studying it or
not, mythology is still being created and told. Looking for contemporary mythology brings us …

… Myth Wars, Dragon Days Legends, Days of Monsters etc.), where the monstrous is the
cornerstone of communication. Thus the discussion leads us close to the concept of the avatar, …

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 …

… about digital cultures and mythology, and how digitally mediated … Digital Mythology and
the Internet's Monster begins as a brilliantly envisioned application of structuralism for the digital …

… Digital Mythology and the Internet’s Monster is one of the … increasing participatory dimensions
of digital cultures and models … Something Awful is a popular internet site that hosts comical …

… This paper explores popular attitudes toward the Internet (… terms, institutionalized in popular
mythologies and ideological … system, the digital hardware of the Internet and World Wide Web…

… pet food over the Internet), unmasking myths would be likely … myth, it is important to state
at the outset that myths mean more than falsehoods or cons; indeed, they matter greatly. Myths …

… and discuss democracy in a digital age. Our use of the monster metaphor is related to the …
in myths and folk tales to the recent surge of Internet trolling, Lindow observes how the …

… Newsom in their work on Slender Man as Internet mythology: … internet’s own monster” (Dudek
Citation2014). Once again drawing on Chess and Newsom (Citation2015), “the monster …

… monster texts and consider different approaches to hypertext, focusing on the role of the
reader in the production of hypertext monster … no longer draw on the monster text as a narrative …