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food contamination and the Internet. These stories, often incredible, horrific or funny, are always told as if they are true and usually happened to 'a friend of a friend'. However, although occasionally they may really have happened, they will usually have been entirely made up. Perhaps the best definition of urban legend is that an [4] People started using the term urban legend more than seventy years ago, but it was only in the 1990s Opinions differ, that but many experts believe that the s alligator story was the grandfather e of the modern legends. You must have come across the tale about a f colony of huge alligators that live deep down in the sewers underneath m New York City. It can be traced back hi to stories from the 1930s which told how New Yorkers would bring back t baby alligators with them from their holidays in Florida only to flush them down the toilet when they got too big. Despite a number of claims no one has ever been able to provide any photographic proof. This is hardly surprising when you consider that a baby alligator wouldn't last a day in the freezing sewer system of New York 5 These days, the spread of the Internet and, in particular, social networking sites, has given urban legend tellers an immediate audience There of millions, and D are now even websites dedicated to investigating the truth behind the thousands of urban legends circulating in cyberspace. Is it true that a man died when he fell asleep with his laptop still on, causing the machine to overheat and set fire to his bed? Have people really been killed by lightning while talking on the phone during a thunderstorm? You can find the answers to these and other questions on the Internet [6] These stories have become such a part of our everyday life that Ever since it was founded at the University of Sheffield in 1982, the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research has held an annual conference in North America or Europe to discuss the latest stories and their significance Over the years, these meetings have looked at a wide range of issues from humanity's compulsion for storytelling, to the cautionary nature of many of the legends, to a comparison of urban legends and traditional fairy tales 7] Recently, many academics have shown more interest in what current urban legends tell us about modern society and particularly how they reflect the climate of fear in which many of us live. Experts argue that whether or not the stories are true is largely irrelevant. What is interesting and, in some cases is that F we will our behaviour because change of it. example, the following As an legend is often quoted: an email warns that motorists have been stopping to investigate baby car seats that have been left beside countryside roads. As soon as the would-be do-gooder has got out of their car to investigate, they are attacked and beaten by a group of men, who drive off in their car leaving them for dead. Now, although not one single case of this has ever been reported a lot of people are reluctant to stop their car to help people in distress, for fear that this could happen to them
กรณีของfood contamination and the Internet. These stories, often incredible, horrific or funny, are always told as if they are true and usually happened to 'a friend of a friend'. However, although occasionally they may really have happened, they will usually have been entirely made up. Perhaps the best definition of urban legend is that an [4] People started using the term urban legend more than seventy years ago, but it was only in the 1990s Opinions differ, that but many experts believe that the s alligator story was the grandfather e of the modern legends. You must have come across the tale about a f colony of huge alligators that live deep down in the sewers underneath m New York City. It can be traced back hi to stories from the 1930s which told how New Yorkers would bring back t baby alligators with them from their holidays in Florida only to flush them down the toilet when they got too big. Despite a number of claims no one has ever been able to provide any photographic proof. This is hardly surprising when you consider that a baby alligator wouldn't last a day in the freezing sewer system of New York 5 These days, the spread of the Internet and, in particular, social networking sites, has given urban legend tellers an immediate audience There of millions, and D are now even websites dedicated to investigating the truth behind the thousands of urban legends circulating in cyberspace. Is it true that a man died when he fell asleep with his laptop still on, causing the machine to overheat and set fire to his bed? Have people really been killed by lightning while talking on the phone during a thunderstorm? You can find the answers to these and other questions on the Internet [6] These stories have become such a part of our everyday life that Ever since it was founded at the University of Sheffield in 1982, the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research has held an annual conference in North America or Europe to discuss the latest stories and their significance Over the years, these meetings have looked at a wide range of issues from humanity's compulsion for storytelling, to the cautionary nature of many of the legends, to a comparison of urban legends and traditional fairy tales 7] Recently, many academics have shown more interest in what current urban legends tell us about modern society and particularly how they reflect the climate of fear in which many of us live. Experts argue that whether or not the stories are true is largely irrelevant. What is interesting and, in some cases is that F we will our behaviour because change of it. example, the following As an legend is often quoted: an email warns that motorists have been stopping to investigate baby car seats that have been left beside countryside roads. As soon as the would-be do-gooder has got out of their car to investigate, they are attacked and beaten by a group of men, who drive off in their car leaving them for dead. Now, although not one single case of this has ever been reported a lot of people are reluctant to stop their car to help people in distress, for fear that this could happen to them
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