This is an updated edition of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke, published in
2006. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, it …

Humor is a quintessentially social phenomenon Jokes and other humorous utterances are
a form of communication that is usually shared in social interaction These humorous …

In the early 1990s, more than 1.6 million Jews from the former Soviet Union emigrated to
Israel, the United States, Canada, Germany, and other Western countries. Larissa …

This paper focuses on one of the most prominent manifestations of humorous
communication in the present era–Internet-based humor. It explores both the content of …

O artigo se propõe a empreender uma revisão de literatura sobre o campo da memética e
as evoluções no conceito de meme, desde a sua fundamentação, ainda na década de …

This paper discusses preliminary results of a comprehensive research on the uses and
appropriations of political-electoral memes. Our main goal at this stage is to develop …

As Eleições 2014 ficaram marcadas no imaginário popular brasileiro como as “eleições dos
memes”. Sob o ponto de vista científico, porém, acredita-se que há ainda raras tentativas de …

Much of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, and we
therefore need to be able to understand its many aspects. Here, two of the world's leading …

A thematic analysis of humor circulating on Israeli social networks during the COVID-19
lockdown reveals challenges that parents faced. Parents (mostly mothers) expressed the …

Young people are told that college is a place where they will “find themselves” by engaging
with diversity and making friendships that will last a lifetime. This vision of an inclusive …