| title: | Internet. Processes of construction, reproduction and transformation of narratives, values and identities |
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| reg no: | ETF6824 |
| project type: | Estonian Science Foundation research grant |
| subject: |
6.4. Folklore |
| status: | accepted |
| institution: | Estonian Literary Museum |
| head of project: | Mare Kõiva |
| duration: | 01.01.2006 - 31.12.2009 |
| description: | Internet today as an environment for expression identity, mentality, creativity, power, institutionality and the individual will be the research focus of the project team. Research into virtual reality bases on the recent folklore, narrative and cyberspace theoretical approach. The purposes of the presented project are as follows: ·to observe collective identification, construction of personal and group identity, its representation and transformation in virtual settings, also its reflections via narratives, prejudices and other kinds of texts. ·to study the differences of value systems of symbolical expressions, actions and signs in groups and between groups ·to characterize the models, functions and motivators of virtual narratives and beliefs (based on the theory of possible worlds) ·to characterize the communication models, the movement of information and lore, also (lore) traditions which are used by members of a certain group or virtual community ·To experimentally observe the presentation of scientific research of one domain (astronomy) in the web and the echoes it creates in public forums ·to observe presentation of sensitive topics in the internet ·to follow the process of folklorisation occurring from the web to media and from the web to the real world ·the ethics, legality and access to data of the Internet ·to cover the domains which have not yet been studied and to compose a study course and manual of Internet folklore The sample includes: 1)experimental groups to follow MSN communication and the environments of Rate.ee and Neopets (all project members); 2)selected thematic pages (astral mythology, animals, medicine) and corresponding lists; 3)selected virtual communities and related web communication (e.g. geocaching, sport fans, Middle Earth Fellowship). 4)selected topics for individual research (trauma, crisis, chronic disease, religious experience, folklorisation process, intertextual relations, expressions of cosmology). 5) (online) folklore databases and publications. The research project will use earlier web archivings of the project members and will continue with the most promising topics. Sample will consist of people 10-60 years old. Project members will have common as well as individual research tasks. For thematic research, online forums, comments to news articles, Delfi and other similar environments will be used. Hypotheses: * Use of different internet communication channels are not determined by solely age, social status or profession; * In a group, the opposer’s role is taken by a person who in real life is interested in the leader’s position and attention, using the web as an opportunity. * Internet creates much mimicry, inc. the reflection of internet communication in internet itself. * Internet adapts classical heritage. * Internet communities replace and do not replace close communication in reali life, but in certain situations widen this. * Only chosen texts and (auto)censored presentations of reality reach the internet. * Simulation and role changes are mechanisms of playfulness and text creation. * Internet heritage integrates into the real (oral) heritage. * Internet/online databases activate and wides the useage of the texts from folklore archives. |
| project group | ||||
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Mare Kalda | |||
| 2. | Andres Kuperjanov | |||
| 3. | Mare Kõiva | Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum | ||
| 4. | Liisa Vesik | |||
| 5. | Piret Voolaid | |||