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Misfortune Narratives

Misfortune Narratives is a theoretical construct within the study of digital superstitions that refers to a genre of belief-laden accounts in which adverse outcomes are attributed to specific digital actions, objects, or omissions, distinguished by their narrative structure, moral causality, and function in reinforcing technologically mediated taboos.

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2017–2026

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Publications

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"It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West

Glenda Riley, Richard White · Western Historical Quarterly · 1992 · 269 citations

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bad blood, spoiled milk: bodily fluids as moral barometers in rural Haiti

Paul Farmer · American Ethnologist · 1988 · 163 citations

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Soldiers of misfortune: An examination of the Dark Triad and the experience of schadenfreude

Stephen Porter, Aisha K. Bhanwer, Michael Woodworth et al. · Personality and Individual Differences · 2013 · 107 citations

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9. The Misfortunes of the Dead

George Pitcher · Stanford University Press eBooks · 1993 · 98 citations

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Becoming Wise: A Psycho-Gerontological Interpretation of the <i>Book of Job</i>

W. Andrew Achenbaum, Lucinda Orwoll · The International Journal of Aging and Human Development · 1991 · 82 citations

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Authors

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  1. RW
    Richard White

    Creighton University, United States

    2 publications · 337 citations

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  2. MW
    Michael Woodworth

    University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada

    1 publications · 107 citations

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  3. JW
    John W. Bailey

    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  4. SP
    Stephen Porter

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    1 publications · 107 citations

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  5. PB
    Pamela Black

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    1 publications · 107 citations

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Institutions

15

  1. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    46 citations

  2. University of New Hampshire

    Durham, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    71 citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    108 citations

  4. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    164 citations

  5. University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus

    Kelowna, Canada

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    428 citations

  6. University of Sussex

    Brighton, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  7. Tampere University

    Tampere, Finland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  8. Seton Hall University

    South Orange, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

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  1. American Ethnologist

    AE · 2 publications · 179 citations

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  2. The Arkansas Historical Quarterly

    1 publications · 68 citations

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  3. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  4. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

    JRAI · 1 publications · 10 citations

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  5. Asian Folklore Studies

    1 publications · 22 citations

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