Monsters and Mental Healthcare - Vivian Asimos & Kathleen Hale
Digital Folklore
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Slender Man - What Do You Take From It?
The storytelling mechanic of the Slender Man is this idea of pretending it as if real. When you're thinking about creepy pastas, people are knowingly writing fiction and fan fiction around that. And then all of a sudden now you have groups of people that know it's fake and are reading that to be scared or wanting to be scared. As a folklorist, as a sociologist, as somebody who's interested just in people and how they work, what do you take from that?
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