On PPS presentations as an internet-lore phenomenon
ENThe PowerPoint program, devised by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin, has long been used not only to create web pages and enliven the conference presentations. Many thematically varied presentations are distributed on the Internet via personal communication channels. The authors of such presentations are seldom named; nevertheless the contents of these presentations obviously relect the interests of individual recipients or whole groups. A survey of a larger amount of materials yields evidence of variation that allows this subject to be treated as a folklore phenomenon. In this article, iles in .pps and .ppt format sent out by e-mail and characterized by the above-mentioned features are analyzed. The subject of investigation is treated as a coherent visual narrative, comprising series of completely or partly independent polycode compounds, united by textual, graphic, audio and video elements, characterized by a certain syntactic and semantic valency. Keywords: Folklore, Internet-lore, multimedia, PPS, PPT, variability.
