ABSTRACT
Digital culture encompasses the internet, video games, online video, programmable alarm clocks, cyborgs, smartphones, and a huge variety of other things beside. Fairy tales, which may seem at first glance to be somewhat incompatible with digital culture, are thriving in a frontier that provides an important new space to engage and play. Blogs, comics, and online videos are three of the main areas in which private individuals, through our ever-expanding digital culture, influence and shape the world – including our relationships to and understandings of fairy tales. The chapter focuses on three different and less critically considered corners of the fairy-tale internet: the blogosphere, web-comics, and online video. Many of the fairy-tale videos that are posted online are parody videos. Parody videos are by far the most popular way to engage with the fairy tale via online video, one can easily find a variety of straight retellings, “vids”, and even recorded storytelling sessions as well.
