Open AccessFEARS AND SCARY NARRATIVES OF CHILDREN IN THE ERA OF THE INTERNET
Author(s) -
Tatyana A. Mirvoda,
Mikhail Stroganov
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kulʹtura i tekst
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2305-4077
DOI - 10.37386/2305-4077-2021-1-129-147
Subject(s) - narrative , folklore , mythology , poetics , the internet , literature , conversation , space (punctuation) , aesthetics , history , art , media studies , sociology , linguistics , computer science , philosophy , communication , world wide web , poetry
(Discussion based on the materials of the defense of T. A. Mirvoda’s PhD thesis “Poetics of a modern children’s “scary” narrative in oral tradition and the Internet”)Within the framework of the conversation, the article discusses psychological background of the emergence and existence of scary stories in the modern online space which are being accompanied with audio-visual objects and ritual practices, which on a par with the oral folk art of similar themes form the network mythology of horrors (the creepypasta). The principles of genre stratification of children’s «scary» narrative folklore and the creation of a corresponding index of characters and plots, as well as the differentiation of scary stories and evocations, proposed in the dissertation research by T. A. Mirvoda, are highlighted.