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. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged.
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. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged.
Salvatore Attardo is a well-known humor scholar, who has published several books on humor and edited the Encyclopedia of Humor Studies.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1.Humor and the Internet 2.Memetics 3.Humor Theory Part 1.New genres 4.The New Language of Humor 5.The Compilation 6.Internet Cartoons 7.Stuff White People Like 8.Dogecoin, the Joke Currency 9. The Spoiler Alert 10.Satirical News Websites and Fake News Part 2.Memes and More Memes 11.Memetic Drift or The Alliteration Arsonist 12.The Saga of Boaty McBoatface 13.A General Theory of Grumpy Cats 14.The Pastafarian Memeplex: Joke Religion as a System 15.When Chuck Norris Is Waiting, Godot Comes 16.The Half-life of a Meme: The Rise and Fall of Memes Part 3.Multimodality 17.Hitler's Opinion on the Parking Situation in Tel Aviv 18.Photobombing as Figure Ground Reversal 19."Hard to Watch": Cringe and Embarrassment Humor 20.Humor Videos 21.Reaction Videos Part 4.The Dark Side of Internet Humor 22.The Use of Humor by the Alt-Right 23.4chan, Trolls and Lulz: Fascists at Play 24.Pepe, Kek and Friends Conclusion: Plus ça change... Bibliography Author Index Subject Index
Introduction 1.Humor and the Internet 2.Memetics 3.Humor Theory Part 1.New genres 4.The New Language of Humor 5.The Compilation 6.Internet Cartoons 7.Stuff White People Like 8.Dogecoin, the Joke Currency 9. The Spoiler Alert 10.Satirical News Websites and Fake News Part 2.Memes and More Memes 11.Memetic Drift or The Alliteration Arsonist 12.The Saga of Boaty McBoatface 13.A General Theory of Grumpy Cats 14.The Pastafarian Memeplex: Joke Religion as a System 15.When Chuck Norris Is Waiting, Godot Comes 16.The Half-life of a Meme: The Rise and Fall of Memes Part 3.Multimodality 17.Hitler's Opinion on the Parking Situation in Tel Aviv 18.Photobombing as Figure Ground Reversal 19."Hard to Watch": Cringe and Embarrassment Humor 20.Humor Videos 21.Reaction Videos Part 4.The Dark Side of Internet Humor 22.The Use of Humor by the Alt-Right 23.4chan, Trolls and Lulz: Fascists at Play 24.Pepe, Kek and Friends Conclusion: Plus ça change... Bibliography Author Index Subject Index
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