Humor 2.0: how the Internet changed humor

The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. Included are also in-depth discussions of the humor in phenomena such as Dogecoin,...

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Beteilige Person: Attardo, Salvatore 1962- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London Anthem Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. Included are also in-depth discussions of the humor in phenomena such as Dogecoin, the joke currency, and the use of humor by the alt-right. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged. Written by a well-known specialist in humor studies, the book is engaging and readable, but also based on extensive scholarship
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Introduction; Part 1: New Genres; Part 2: Memes and more memes; Part 3: Multimodality; Part 4: The Dark Side of Internet humor; Conclusion: plus ça change
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 286 Seiten)
ISBN:9781839988585