Antropologicheskij forum, 2016, no. 31

NEWSLORE IN SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET CULTURE: FROM THE EDITORS

Alexandra Arkhipova

Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
84 Prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, Russia
Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
82/2 Prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, Russia
Russian State University for the Humanities
6 Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, Russia
alexandra.arkhipova()gmail.com

Daria Radchenko

Abstract: The research of media-dependent folklore forms includes the study of folkloric reactions to current events. In 2015, a conference titled “Newslore and Medialore in the Contemporary World: Folklorisation of Reality” was held. The participants discussed the issues of creation and transmission of folkloric texts, their structure and social functions.

Keywords: newslore, medialore, contemporary folklore, media-dependent folklore, rumour, disaster lore, humour.

To cite: Arkhipova A., Radchenko D., 'Newslore v sovetskom i postsovetskom prostranstve: ot sostaviteley' [Newslore in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture: From the Editors], Antropologicheskij forum, 2016, no. 31, pp. 115–118.

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/031/arkhipova_radchenko.pdf