Monsters and Mental Healthcare - Vivian Asimos & Kathleen Hale
Digital Folklore
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What Makes a Monster Monster?
The internet seems to be more acknowledged as real now. I remember that being the prevailing opinion a lot around the time Slender Man happened in like 2009 like up until then. It feels like that's changed in the probably not an academia but in sort of the mainstream thought about the internet not being a quote unquote real place. COVID has really altered it as people were forced to do a lot of things online and forced to find communities online. In your Udemy course you referenced Jeffrey Cohen's monster theory in the seven theses of what makes a monster monster. What is relevant for you when it comes to the study of folklore and digital monsters?
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