Sheila Bock examines the ways in which people’s reactions to the novel coronavirus pandemic have mirrored other, earlier public health scares from the bubonic plague to Ebola in an essay in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas News Center. See Sheila Bock,
Folklorists in the News
Maribel Alvarez, of the University of Arizona Southwest Center, identifies folklorists as “first responders” in times of great change or transition as she states that “folklorists can sense small shifts in human behavior that others might at first overlook or dismiss as
The New York Times spotlights the efforts of the Library of Congress to document internet culture, with a shout-out to John Fenn and the Web Cultures collection, overseen by the American Folklife Center. See Steven Kurutz, “Meet Your Meme Lords,” The New York Times (April 7, 2020):