Re: Re: Re: Types of Liminal Spaces
Oct. 14th, 2026 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingLet me share the PDFs of the two academic articles about creepypasta that I requested.
"Horror Memes and Digital Culture" by Tosha R. Taylor (PDF here)
This article is mostly a documentation of digital media history (like: there was this and this and this) without much analysis, but it's fairly solid.
"Gothic Digital Technologies" by Joseph Crawford (PDF here)
This article also contains a lot of documentation, mostly of the same creepypasta texts as the previous article, and it also provides a tidy bit of cultural contextualization. Another solid piece of writing.
If you're the sort of person who likes to read Wikipedia, both articles are entertaining. Still, I didn't learn anything that I didn't already know. It's fair to say that I'm the sort of sicko who probably knows more about creepypasta than most people, but I wish the authors had singled out a few texts for deeper analysis.
"Horror Memes and Digital Culture" by Tosha R. Taylor (PDF here)
This article is mostly a documentation of digital media history (like: there was this and this and this) without much analysis, but it's fairly solid.
"Gothic Digital Technologies" by Joseph Crawford (PDF here)
This article also contains a lot of documentation, mostly of the same creepypasta texts as the previous article, and it also provides a tidy bit of cultural contextualization. Another solid piece of writing.
If you're the sort of person who likes to read Wikipedia, both articles are entertaining. Still, I didn't learn anything that I didn't already know. It's fair to say that I'm the sort of sicko who probably knows more about creepypasta than most people, but I wish the authors had singled out a few texts for deeper analysis.
