Preliminary communication
THE CULTURE OF LAUGHTER, THE CULTURE OF TEARS: SEPTEMBER 11th EVENTS ECHOED ON THE INTERNET
Sanja Kalapoš
; Intitute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author, following the already established anthropology of the
Internet (or email being a part of the Internet) which observes these
phenomena as a contemporary and widespread form of
communication, understands both written and visual material that
circles through email as a reflection of the popular culture in a world
engaged in the process of globalisation through media which enable
instant transfer of information from one corner of the world to the
other. She is investigating almost immediate email responses
(however, for the purpose of this paper only the humorous ones) to
the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City,
which took place on 11th September, and which arrived to Croatia
merely a day or two after the event, dividing them into the global
and the local ones. Those humorous correspondence is being
interpreted as a Bahtinesque answer to the tragic events, as well as a
popular and group ironical (and self-ironical) distance from the
horrifying reality.
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33236
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Publication date:
10.6.2002.
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