Anthony Bak Buccitelli, interim assistant dean for graduate studies and associate professor of American studies and communications at the Pennsylvania State University, currently serves as director of the Pennsylvania Center for Folklore. His books include City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston.
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List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: The Pandemic Event: Rethinking Events, Audiences, and Context After Lockdown Chapter 2: Accessing the Archive: From Tradition Memory to Potential Memory Chapter 3: Check This Out: Mobile Devices and the Poetics of Sharing Chapter 4: Tap Here: Folk Art, Illusions, and Haptic Affordances Chapter 5: Fairy Tale as Fuck: Antimodern Media and the Cultivation of Affect Chapter 6: Get Outside and Move Around: Technological Structures and Cultural Heritage Chapter 7: Agentive Folk: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Tradition Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
"With a heady blend of erudite scholarship, perceptive insights, and everyday examples, this book makes the essential point that digital technologies actually change who we are. An essential and transformative read." - Tok Thompson, author of Posthuman Folklore