גלישה היגודית (Narration Surfing): על טקסטים פולקלוריסטים המתפרסמים ברשת וניתוחם

In recent years, online folklore has attracted the interest of researchers from various disciplines. This is evidenced by the number of terms offered in the research field: netlore, digital folklore, interlore, cyberlore, computerlore. However, in most cases, no distinction is made between folklore published on static sites (which have features of interactivity and the site owner or administrator adds material) and dynamic sites (where there is interactivity between user-creators and user-responders), and no attention is paid to the place and reaction of surfers. Nor is there uniformity in the analysis of the works published on the Internet. This study is pioneering for two reasons. First, it offers a term 'narration surfing', which encompasses the entire virtual narrative event as a single unit, involving a user-creators (authors), user-responders (commenters), a message (story/joke) and narrative circumstances. Second, the study offers a new method for the analysis the virtual narrative events. As an illustrative case study, it discusses selected stories about Nasreddin that were published on the Internet in Russian.