Samtida digital folklivsforskning

För två och ett halvt år sedan nämnde jag Olia Lialinas utforskande av den folkliga webbdesignen, och nu finns det en hel bok i ämnet digital amatörkultur: Digital Folklore, som we make money not art gillar grymt mycket, och man själv blir sugen att djupdyka i:

Digital Folklore fills a gap in the computer and network culture you'd never know existed if you attend only big tech or web design conferences. Subcultures peopled by lolcats, memes and unsightly fonts are conspicuously absent from these polished gatherings, but that doesn't mean that they are less relevant to computer culture than what you see in the PowerPoint of usability strategists, information designers and other web gurus.