Internet humor

The Internet has long been a resource for the circulation of humorous ideas and jokes. Countless web-sites are devoted to the collection of Internet humor, and every day e-mail crosses the world, containing the text of humorous articles, or jokes about current events.

See also

• Faxlore
• Flash animation
• List of Internet phenomena
• Urban legend
• Rickrolling
• Oxymoron

References

• Encyclopedia of Humor Studies
• “Mars and Venus” in Virtual Space: Post-feminist Humor and the Internet. Critical Studies in Media Communication.
• Humor in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Continuity and Change in Internet-Based Comic Texts. International Journal of Communication.
• Assessing global diffusion with Web memetics: The spread and evolution of a popular joke. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
• The social construction of digital danger: debating, defusing and inflating the moral dangers of online humor and pornography in the Netherlands and the United States. New Media & Society.
• Unveiling the humor mind of the “starving Armenians”: Literary and internet humor. Humor.
• Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke. The New York Times.
• The Forward as Folklore: Studying E-Mailed Humor. Utah State University.