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Feger, Claudia. "Urban Legends - Wie moderne Mythen entstehen." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2005. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200501763.

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Miller, Amanda. "A Well Excavated Grave." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1528122681882913.

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L'Official, Pete Thomas. "Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13065024.

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"Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin" examines the construction of the South Bronx in the American imagination during the 1970s and 1980s--a time when the South Bronx was synonymous with the failures of urbanism. The project attempts a multidisciplinary excavation of the cultural manifestations of urban ruin as articulated through the histories, literatures, and visual arts produced within and inspired by the ruins of the Bronx. The dissertation contends that Bronx ruins offered a site for visual artists, writers, and photographers to create new ways of understanding the

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Stubbersfield, Joseph Michael. "Content biases in the cultural transmission and evolution of urban legends." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10768/.

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This thesis examines the role of cognitive content biases in cultural transmission. The concept of cognitive content biases suggests that humans preferentially attend to, recall and transmit certain types of information over others, and that this bias influences the transmission and evolution of cultural artefacts. A number of studies are presented which primarily use genuine urban legends as material. In using ‘real world’ material such as urban legends these studies expand our knowledge of how content biases operate and shed light on the cultural success of these legends. Methodology include

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Costello, Lincoln John James. "Retells and Remakes: Understanding How Horror Urban Legends Change Over Time." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104860.

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This study seeks to understand how horror urban legends undergo changes over time and the possible reasons for their alterations. Past researchers have yet to analyze the shifts that have occurred within the retellings of these dark tales, and through this analysis, light will be shed onto what truly affects the media's storytelling behavior. Building upon meme theory, this study will use narrative and historical context analyses to uncover the objectives, narrative elements and temporal environments surrounding 10 replications of three horror urban legend memes over the past century. This res

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Elliott, Devin Michael. "West Virginia Urban Legends and Their Impact on Cultures Both Local and Abroad." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1621995466903678.

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Lopes, Carlos Renato. "Lendas urbanas na internet: entre a ordem do discurso e o acontecimento enunciativo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-04122007-102908/.

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Esta tese é dedicada ao estudo de narrativas do gênero lendas urbanas dentro de uma perspectiva discursiva. Com base em um corpus composto de mensagens trocadas em uma comunidade virtual sobre o tema na Internet no período entre 2005 e 2006, busca-se fundamentalmente investigar os modos pelos quais tais narrativas se situam, enquanto enunciados, entre uma ordem de discurso dotada de uma certa sistematicidade e uma instância de acontecimento único, materializada na enunciação. Propõe-se a reflexão de que as lendas urbanas, sendo geradas no seio da vida cotidiana e trazendo elementos que fazem p

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Enríquez-Soltero, Gonzalo. "Deeper into the labyrinth : a study of the impact of risk narratives on culture, based on two urban legends spread by email in Mexico City (2005-2007)." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/58549/.

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Despite the late stage of modernity we live in, urban legends, an already prolific form of folklore, have become even more prone to retransmission within the internet. This thesis aims to understand why and how these contemporary folk tales are so widely believed and disseminated. Two crime legends that spread in Mexico City through email from 2005 to 2007 will be studied as narratives that address some of the most pressing problems as perceived by a given population, engaging human beings principally by helping to make sense of hostile environments, binding together human groups through fear

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Bennett, Gillian. "Aspects of supernatural belief, memorate and legend in a contemporary urban environment." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1985. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1891/.

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The aim of the study is to move away from the antiquarian bias of previous work on the folklore of the supernatural in order to shed light on present day attitudes and concepts. In the past, folkiorists have done very little to collect their own culture, or even to recognise its forms. This has been particularly true of British work on ghost traciitions - the tendency of all but a very few scholars has 'been to retire to the library and compile collections of legends. The present study eschews this approach in favour of fieldwork. There are three main aspects of the work. The early chapters pr

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Rogers, Shae. "Have You Heard About Hairy-Armed Killers, Defiled Steaks and Contaminated Condiments? Affect, Interpersonal Relationships and Urban Legend Transmission." Thesis, Griffith University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367088.

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The aim of the present thesis is to test a model of urban legend transmission by examining patterns of transmission, the interpersonal functions of transmission, and the role of affect. Urban legends are virulent and persist despite efforts to prevent, cease, or reduce their transmission. The thesis reviews existing explanations for urban legend transmission before presenting the current model to be tested. The model in the present thesis incorporates core social motives (Fiske, 2000, 2004), conversational pragmatics (Grice, 1975), and rationality of purpose (Evans, Over, & Manktelow, 1993) to

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Giles, David. "The Magic of the Magic Kingdom: Folklore and Fan Culture in Disneyland." DigitalCommons@USU, 2017. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/5728.

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As fandom studies are becoming more popular and important, one fandom yet remains largely unstudied: the fandom surrounding Disneyland. The Disneyland fandom is unique in a number of ways, chief among them the fans’ relationship to the content creators: unlike many other companies in similar positions, Disney seeks to put boundaries on fan participation and to discourage or stamp out behaviors it deems unacceptable. And yet, in spite of this official meddling, the fandom continues to thrive. I propose that the reason for this unique dynamic is the Disney “Magic”—that is, fans’ recognition of a

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Ruiz, Paulo Roberto da Silva. "Classificação da cobertura do solo urbano usando árvores de decisão a partir de cenas WorldView-2 e WorldView-3 para diferentes níveis de legenda." Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), 2017. http://urlib.net/sid.inpe.br/mtc-m21b/2017/03.23.16.13.

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A partir do final dos anos 1990, o sensoriamento remoto orbital passou a oferecer imagens de elevada resolução espacial. Desde então, essa novidade fez florescer novas possibilidades no panorama dos estudos urbanos. A alta resolução espacial permite identificar com mais eficiência os alvos característicos das cidades, inaugurando uma nova era no estudo do espaço intraurbano. Atualmente, como a maioria da população mundial reside em cidades, o planejamento urbano não pode prescindir de um eficiente mapeamento urbano. Nesse sentido, o sensoriamento remoto de alta resolução espacial possui papel

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Benicá, Fabiana Aparecida. "Lenda urbana : uma proposta de ensino da oralidade /." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/153322.

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Moreira, Natália Eunice Paiva. "Lendas urbanas: atualização, persistência e "realidade" nessas narrativas multimídia." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2010. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/5325.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:18:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Natalia Eunice Paiva Moreira.pdf: 1414671 bytes, checksum: a64da425a26b2aba68f8ba150207fca0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-07-02<br>This research processes and analyzes the popular contemporary narratives that are told in Brazil. The material was collected through bibliographical researches and interviews. This work aims to explain how the urban legend phenomenon is constituted of media production and historical and cultural environment, plus social, political and cultural mediations and impacts over daily life. Th

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França, David Guimarães Monteiro. "Comparação entre classificações de cobertura do solo urbano derivadas do WV-2 quanto ao nível da legenda de classificação: estudo de caso para um setor da Unicamp, SP." Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), 2016. http://urlib.net/sid.inpe.br/mtc-m21b/2016/08.23.15.02.

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Áreas urbanas possuem importância estratégica por abrigarem a imensa maioria da população brasileira, mas essas áreas são dinâmicas e demandam contínua atualização cartográfica. Tal necessidade posiciona o sensoriamento remoto orbital (SR) como ferramenta chave para o mapeamento e atualização dessas áreas, oferecendo cobertura sistemática e elevada qualidade geométrica. Mas a complexidade dos alvos urbanos é tema persistente na literatura e vai além das limitações espectrais. Neste contexto, este trabalho explorou as potencialidades e limitações do sensor WorldView-2 (WV-2) para a classificaçã

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Kaneshiro-Hauptmann, Akemi. "'Das ist absolut wahr!' - Wahre Geschichte oder moderne Sage?-." Doctoral thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-000D-F1C9-1.

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Wu, Jie-Hao, and 吳杰澔. "The Creation and reproduction of Taiwan’s Urban Legend—A Study of The Girl in Red." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k5fpuq.

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碩士<br>國立中興大學<br>台灣與跨文化研究國際博士學位學程<br>107<br>This thesis mainly focuses on the two-decade-ago urban legend “The Girl in Red.” First, I introduce the origin and propagation of the legend, as well as its social background. In addition, by reviewing Jan H. Brunvand’s The Vanishing Hitchhiker, I analyze the concept of “urban legends” and clarify why I labeled “The Girl in Red” as one of them. 　　And then, through examining the movie The Tag-Along 2, which is inspired by the legend, I tried to point out the potential prototype of the character and the root in this text. In order to make up for the lo

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Kullmanová, Katarína. "Golem a jeho proměny v populární kultuře." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-353887.

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KULLMANOVÁ, Katarína Bc.: Transformation of Golem in Popular Culture (diploma thesis) Charles University in Prague. Faculty: Institute of Ethnology. Supervisor: PhDc. Peter Janecek, Ph.D. Praha, 2015-08-16 The aim of the study is to outline the Golem legend, through the work of Alois Jirasek: Old Czech Legends (1894) a film by Martin Fric: The Emperor's Baker and Baker's Emperor (1951), which enables got Golem today's visually similar. Subsequent demonstration on how much above two sources affect people's perceptions on the topic. The aim of this work is also to show the gradual disappearance

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