A Fiadotava
Biographic Data
| ID | 45844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Fiadotava |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Fiadotava |
| SIGNATURE | FIADOTAVA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Estonian Literary Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6985-1880 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Is It Okay for Pots to Laugh at Kettles? Slovenian, Estonian, and Belarusian Proverbs about Joking and Laughter
Vaimse tervise representatsioon eestikeelses internetihuumoris
Mental health problems are actively depicted and discussed not only by psychiatrists and psychologists, but they are also featured in pop culture and folklore. Thanks to social media, their representation has changed recently – people with mental health problems are no longer always portrayed as scary monsters as they were in the past, but are instead romanticized and trivialized. However, such romanticization and trivialization are also controve…
Using Wordplay to Create Humor in Estonian, Hungarian and Belarusian Covid-19 Memes
Wordplay is one of the most recurrent techniques used to create humor, and it is often among the first forms of humor to appear as a reaction to disastrous events ( Kuipers 2002). In this article, we categorize wordplay in COVID-19 humor according to the type of wordplay that accounts for the humorous effect. The analysis reveals that most of the wordplay humor in memes and jokes is based on paronymy, homonymy, with its subtypes of homography and…
From Venus de Milo to Nike ads: The role of art references in the production of Covid-19 humour in Central and Eastern Europe
This study examines the role of art references in the production of humour in COVID-19 Internet memes in Central and Eastern Europe. Taking a broad understanding of art (including fine art and popular culture references), we examine how humorous references to local, regional, glocal, and global art bring together and negotiate between different contexts: the verbal and the visual; the political and the cultural; the ‘old’ (pre-pandemic) and the ‘…
“I Signed the House over to a Cat”: Humor of the Belarusian 2020–2021 Protests
Post-electoral protests in 2020 were unprecedented in Belarus: not only in terms of their massive size and long duration, but also because of the abundant use of humor by the protesters. As a phenomenon that has both cognitive and emotional sides, humor plays an important role in political protests. It can help as a way to cope with anger and fear, but it can also mark people’s belonging to certain social groups. Using Belarusian 2020 protest pos…
“There’s a New Hitler in Town, and His Name Is…”: Historical Memes About the Russian War in Ukraine
Our study analyses historical motifs in memes about the Russian war in Ukraine. We identify recurrent motifs and look at the relationship between their historical references and their stance. The results show that historical memes can offer a way of legitimising contemporary events, contribute to establishing superiority over enemies, evaluate current events, and ridicule or praise the people involved. Stance needs to be considered when analysing…
The Belarus-Poland migrant crisis: Views From Both Sides of the Wall
The migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian and Lithuanian-Belarusian borders has resulted in border crossing restrictions and the construction of walls separating Poland and Lithuania from Belarus. It has also provoked humorous reactions in online media. We discuss the targets of these humorous reactions and illustrate how humour highlights the gap between Belarusian and Polish authorities’ activities/claims and reality. We analyse conservative …
If MPs have immunity, then why are they so afraid of the Coronavirus?’ Political humor during the first Covid-19 pandemic wave in Europe
The COVID-19 pandemic gave rise to an unprecedented circulation of online humor, an important part of which referred to politics and politicians. In the current study, we analyzed a sample of such humorous items (N = 361) across five European countries to find out how pandemic humor represented political leadership. We argue that COVID-19 political humor both politicized and depoliticized the figure of the politician. Pandemic political humor wen…
When the Transnational Rules: Humorous Reactions to the Wagner Group Rebellion in Estonia, Poland and Belarus
At the time of globalisation and digitisation, the news about important events easily and quickly cross national boundaries, and so does the humour that emerges as a reaction to the news. Memes and jokes about conflicts can be found far beyond a country or region where the conflicts occur. In the present article we investigate whether humour on the same conflict differs across different countries. We compare the humour of three countries – Belaru…
Aaron Sachs: Stay cool: why dark comedy matters in the fight against climate change
Humour as cultural heritage
Cultural heritage has important and serious functions for our societies, and yet, there is room for humour in the institutionalised heritage practices. The article goes beyond the focus on single humorous genres or forms and adopts a holistic perspective on how humorous heritage is institutionalised. It discusses the challenges in humorous heritage preservation and showcasing and peculiarities of humorous heritage among other cultural heritage fo…
Digital Folklore and Digital Fieldwork: Researching Online Humour with Its Offline Context in Mind
The digitalization of folklore has transformed the practices of folklorists' ethnographic fieldwork. Drawing on the experience of collecting digital family humour, the article discusses the peculiarities of digital folklore, its interconnections with oral folklore, and the ways to record and interpret it. As context is an important dimension for folklore interpretation, the analysis suggests ways to collect both the content of digital folklore an…
Vaude-villain and violent funster: Harley Quinn and humour
Harley Quinn is not only DC’s ever-yearning romantic Joker victim – a libidinous, self-centred coarse bumpkin in suspenders, who regularly gets thrashed without mercy – but also an eccentric clown and violent vaude-villain. We argue that the diversity of Harley Quinn’s personality as portrayed by different writers and impersonated by cosplay fans is intrinsically connected to the complex and multi-dimensional humour that is associated with the ch…
ISFNR’s 19 Congress “Folk Narratives in the Changing World”: Riga, Latvia, 17.–19. June 2024
Polarised but similar: Russian and Belarusian pro- and anti-democratic humour in the public sphere
Conflict divides society by bringing out opposing opinions and social, political and cultural difference. Humour becomes a way to disseminate and comment on opinions as well as to mark divisions in the public sphere. Even though humour is ambiguous in nature, its stance (Shifman 2014) is made evident through content and/or context. In cases where the content of pro- and anti-democratic humour is similar, meta-discourse decides the stance. In this…
Laughing and unlaughing at religion-related fake news in Estonia
Contemporary contacts and interactions with religion are often mediated by mass and social media. These sources vary in their reliability and some are known for their use of humor as a communicative strategy. In this article we analyze how humorous religion-related news triggers reactions to and discussions about the intertwined issues of humor, religion, history and ethnic identity. First, we look at how people perceive religion as an institutio…
The power of memes: Personification as a marker of psychological distance in memes about the war in Ukraine
Memes offer responsive acute commentary on controversial societal matters, providing non-violent and democratic spaces of discussion for conflicts. The paper studies memes on the war in Ukraine that spread in Eastern (Russia, Estonia, Belarus) and Western Europe (Spain). We analyze who are the main actors/characters that personify the war in the memes in these countries, how these characters are represented in memes, and what are the global and l…
Humorous Reactions to Controversies in the Estonian Public Sphere: Form, Content, Mechanisms and Comments
The article investigates the humorous reactions to two important controversies that received a great deal of attention in the Estonian public sphere during the summer of the year 2023. These are the Wagner group rebellion and the scandal involving Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas. Building on theories of the public sphere and observations on how humour functions in such a context, by comparing the two cases, we tested the hypothesis that the c…
Putler kaputt: Ajaloomeemid Vene sõja kohta Ukrainas / “Putler kaput”: Historical Memes About the Russian War in Ukraine
Teesid: Uurimuses analüüsitakse ajaloomeeme Vene sõja kohta Ukrainas. Leidsime materjalis korduvad motiivid ning vaatlesime suhteid meemide ajalooalasete viidete ja hoiakute vahel. Selgus, et ajaloomeemid võivad olla vahendiks, kuidas õigustada tänapäeva sündmusi, tekitada vaenlaste suhtes üleolekut, anda hinnanguid sündmustele ning naeruvääristada või tunnustada olukorraga seostuvaid inimesi. Analüüsides meemides ajaloolisi viiteid, tuleb arvest…
Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere
One of the fundamental functions of humor is establishing the boundaries between groups. While it is very easy to trace this function in private settings, it often becomes more challenging in the online public sphere, where different groups of humor audiences overlap; there, using audience-restricting references can be counterproductive by establishing boundaries and preventing the efficient spread of jokes. Using the database on humor and confli…
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media
Conspiracy theories have accompanied vaccination since its mass introduction, circulating, among other forms, in humour – such as cartoons, and now, memes. Importantly, humour has targeted both vaccination and anti-vaccination stances. In this study, we discuss the peculiarities of humorous content within the vaccination debate and uncover the most popular thematic categories, forms and logical mechanisms of humour. We show that humorous and seri…
The cute and the fluffy: Pets, Humour and Personalisation in Political Communication
When serious official political statements are not enough to get people’s votes, politicians often turn to attention-grabbing and emotion-triggering self-presentation. They give the public access to their “normal, everyday” lives through personalisation and use other tools of “new” politics to create a favourable image of themselves. They can also show the unexpected, backstage aspects of their lives, such as their interactions with their pets. T…
Lilia Duskaeva: The ethics of humour in online Slavic media communication
When You Try to Tell People about Climate Change, and They Start Making Memes about You’: The Meaning-Making in Greta Thunberg Internet Memes
This article discusses humorous memes dedicated to climate change activist Greta Thunberg. The analysis of the 264 memes illustrates that Thunberg’s environmental agenda is not central among the memes’ topics. Many memes use the catchy phrases in Thunberg’s speeches, recontextualizing them to achieve humorous effects. While some memes aim at ridiculing Thunberg personally, others use her image metaphorically. Memes abound in intertextual referenc…
Heroes and Villains in Memes on the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Wars and other acute social conflicts are a fruitful ground for the emergence of heroes and villains. This is true for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: both the news media and ordinary people have found targets for villainisation (Russian president Vladimir Putin) and heroisation (Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy) since the outbreak of war. The article discusses how the public images of the two leaders appeared in internet memes colle…
If we don’t quarrel, we joke”: Emic perspectives on Belarusian families’ humorous folklore
The paper discusses Belarusian couples’ reflections on the role of humorous folklore in their daily family interactions. The interviewees generally regarded being humorous as a positive feature and identified (explicitly or implicitly) several functions of humor, such as framing group boundaries, offering criticism, and sharing ideas that would otherwise be difficult to communicate. A recurring distinction evoked by respondents was between “good”…
Sharing humour digitally in family communication
This paper offers a folkloristic perspective on the features and dynamics of sharing humorous content digitally within a family in the context of daily communication. The data, collected from 60 Belarusian families via oral interviews and an online survey (175 respondents), were subjected to quantitative and qualitative content and context analysis. The results suggest that sharing humour digitally within a family can take various forms, some of …
The cute and the fluffy: Pets, Humour and Personalisation in Political Communication
When serious official political statements are not enough to get people’s votes, politicians often turn to attention-grabbing and emotion-triggering self-presentation. They give the public access to their “normal, everyday” lives through personalisation and use other tools of “new” politics to create a favourable image of themselves. They can also show the unexpected, backstage aspects of their lives, such as their interactions with their pets. T…
We came for the Sluts, but stayed for the Slutsk”: FK Slutsk Worldwide Facebook page between ironic and genuine football fandom
In spring 2020, with most national football (soccer) leagues being suspended, fans from around the world turned to the Belarusian Premier League — Europe’s only championship to continue amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In March, a group of Australian football fans created the FK Slutsk Worldwide Facebook group, dedicated to the eponymous Belarusian club, which quickly transformed into a diverse online community. Initially, the group demonstrated many …
When the Moral Mentors Lapse: A Comparative Study of Estonian and Belarusian Clergy Jokes
The religious sphere has inspired much humour, but there are not many historically and culturally contextualized comparative studies of humorous tales and jokes about the clergy. This article aims to compare Estonian and Belarusian joke lore, outline the main topics of clergy jokes, and show their interconnectedness with and dependence upon their respective political, cultural, and ideological mainstreams. We claim that the jokes highlight the in…
Globalisation and ethnic jokes: A new look on an old tradition in Belarus and Estonia
Christie Davies, the renowned humour researcher and a passionate propagator of the comparative method in studying jokes, stressed the necessity of establishing a relationship between two sets of social facts: the jokes themselves on the one hand, and the social structure or cultural traditions wherein they disseminate on the other (Davies 2002: 6). He also inspired others to examine the differences and similarities in the patterns of jokes betwee…
Polarised but similar: Russian and Belarusian pro- and anti-democratic humour in the public sphere
Conflict divides society by bringing out opposing opinions and social, political and cultural difference. Humour becomes a way to disseminate and comment on opinions as well as to mark divisions in the public sphere. Even though humour is ambiguous in nature, its stance (Shifman 2014) is made evident through content and/or context. In cases where the content of pro- and anti-democratic humour is similar, meta-discourse decides the stance. In this…
Laughing and unlaughing at religion-related fake news in Estonia
Contemporary contacts and interactions with religion are often mediated by mass and social media. These sources vary in their reliability and some are known for their use of humor as a communicative strategy. In this article we analyze how humorous religion-related news triggers reactions to and discussions about the intertwined issues of humor, religion, history and ethnic identity. First, we look at how people perceive religion as an institutio…
The power of memes: Personification as a marker of psychological distance in memes about the war in Ukraine
Memes offer responsive acute commentary on controversial societal matters, providing non-violent and democratic spaces of discussion for conflicts. The paper studies memes on the war in Ukraine that spread in Eastern (Russia, Estonia, Belarus) and Western Europe (Spain). We analyze who are the main actors/characters that personify the war in the memes in these countries, how these characters are represented in memes, and what are the global and l…
Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere
One of the fundamental functions of humor is establishing the boundaries between groups. While it is very easy to trace this function in private settings, it often becomes more challenging in the online public sphere, where different groups of humor audiences overlap; there, using audience-restricting references can be counterproductive by establishing boundaries and preventing the efficient spread of jokes. Using the database on humor and confli…
When You Try to Tell People about Climate Change, and They Start Making Memes about You’: The Meaning-Making in Greta Thunberg Internet Memes
This article discusses humorous memes dedicated to climate change activist Greta Thunberg. The analysis of the 264 memes illustrates that Thunberg’s environmental agenda is not central among the memes’ topics. Many memes use the catchy phrases in Thunberg’s speeches, recontextualizing them to achieve humorous effects. While some memes aim at ridiculing Thunberg personally, others use her image metaphorically. Memes abound in intertextual referenc…
Heroes and Villains in Memes on the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Wars and other acute social conflicts are a fruitful ground for the emergence of heroes and villains. This is true for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: both the news media and ordinary people have found targets for villainisation (Russian president Vladimir Putin) and heroisation (Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy) since the outbreak of war. The article discusses how the public images of the two leaders appeared in internet memes colle…
Cooking with Humour: A Study of Belarusian Humorous Folklore about Family Cooking Traditions
This paper is a study of Belarusian humorous folklore revolving around cooking. It examines two different types of folklore text: jokes collected on the internet, and humorous anecdotes in family lore about cooking, the latter collected through fieldwork. By comparing the two kinds of humour, the paper investigates to what extent the values and attitudes manifest in my interviews mirror those found in internet jokes. The research shows that while…
School and the value of knowledge: Transformations in Belarusian jokes about education
Over the past century Belarus has experienced a dramatic increase in educational level. Obtaining secondary education is now considered normal, getting a university degree is prestigious. However, such an attitude is relatively new to Belarusian society. Joke texts that date back to the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century indicate that formal education was widely considered useless, as it did not equip children with skills they needed in r…
Globalisation and ethnic jokes: A new look on an old tradition in Belarus and Estonia
Christie Davies, the renowned humour researcher and a passionate propagator of the comparative method in studying jokes, stressed the necessity of establishing a relationship between two sets of social facts: the jokes themselves on the one hand, and the social structure or cultural traditions wherein they disseminate on the other (Davies 2002: 6). He also inspired others to examine the differences and similarities in the patterns of jokes betwee…
Who sharpens the knives in my house?” Belarusian jokes about adultery at the turn of the 21st century
This paper is a tribute to Belarusian folklorist and ethnographer Uladzimir Sysou (1951-1997) whose extensive legacy includes collecting 139 jokes during his field research in southern Belarus in 1995. Due to his untimely death, these jokes and other folklore items remain unpublished and have, to my knowledge, not been noticed by folklorists. Half of the collected jokes focus on family relations, mostly the relationship between husband and wife. …
Cooking with Humour: A Study of Belarusian Humorous Folklore about Family Cooking Traditions
This paper is a study of Belarusian humorous folklore revolving around cooking. It examines two different types of folklore text: jokes collected on the internet, and humorous anecdotes in family lore about cooking, the latter collected through fieldwork. By comparing the two kinds of humour, the paper investigates to what extent the values and attitudes manifest in my interviews mirror those found in internet jokes. The research shows that while…
Naljad kirikutegelastest Eestis ja Valgevenes XIX–XXI sajandil
Küsimus Armeenia Raadiole: Mis on ühist kirikuõpetajal ja teeviidal? Armeenia Raadio vastab: Mõlemad näitavad teed, aga ise seda teed ei käi. (1980; Viikberg 1997: 119) Kuigi religiooni peetakse traditsiooniliselt tõsiseks, huumorivabaks eluvaldkonnaks (Capps 2006: 414) ning sellega naljatades võib kergesti ületada lubatud-lubamatu huumori nähtamatu piiri,(1) leidub religioonis küllaldaselt koomilist potentsiaali, mida on riskidele vaatamata – võ…
Tänapäeva etnilised naljad eesti ja valgevene internetis
Rahvusnaljad on läbi aegade olnud populaarsed: väidetakse isegi, et need on sageduselt kolmandal kohal pärast suhte- ja poliitikateemalisi anekdoote (vt Shifman 2007: 198). Etnilist huumorit peetakse konteksti- ja kultuuritundlikuks, st teatud naljad levivad vaid teatud gruppide hulgas, samal ajal kui teised naljateemad – seks, poliitika, elukutsed – on universaalsemad ning levivad globaalselt. Christie Davies (1990) [...]
“The Path of the Comedian is Always Going to be a Lonely One”: Comedians’ Mediation Between Family Humour and Public Performance
The article* presents a study of the use of family humour in public comedy and the mutual influence of family humour and public humour on comedians’ performances and everyday life. The interrelations between these domains lie at the level of the content of humour, its format, its performance and the interaction between humour producers and their audience. Family and public humour often overlap and interweave in various ways, especially in the exp…
Sharing humour digitally in family communication
This paper offers a folkloristic perspective on the features and dynamics of sharing humorous content digitally within a family in the context of daily communication. The data, collected from 60 Belarusian families via oral interviews and an online survey (175 respondents), were subjected to quantitative and qualitative content and context analysis. The results suggest that sharing humour digitally within a family can take various forms, some of …
If we don’t quarrel, we joke”: Emic perspectives on Belarusian families’ humorous folklore
The paper discusses Belarusian couples’ reflections on the role of humorous folklore in their daily family interactions. The interviewees generally regarded being humorous as a positive feature and identified (explicitly or implicitly) several functions of humor, such as framing group boundaries, offering criticism, and sharing ideas that would otherwise be difficult to communicate. A recurring distinction evoked by respondents was between “good”…
When the Moral Mentors Lapse: A Comparative Study of Estonian and Belarusian Clergy Jokes
The religious sphere has inspired much humour, but there are not many historically and culturally contextualized comparative studies of humorous tales and jokes about the clergy. This article aims to compare Estonian and Belarusian joke lore, outline the main topics of clergy jokes, and show their interconnectedness with and dependence upon their respective political, cultural, and ideological mainstreams. We claim that the jokes highlight the in…
Where the Structural Meets the Personal: Mother-In-Law Humor Between a Joke Cycle and Joking Relationships in Belarus
The paper discusses the status of mother-in-law humor in the context of humorous family communication in contemporary Belarusian families. The humorous communication is represented by widespread canned jokes that portray the wife's mother as an ill-natured and imperious character, and by personal humorous stories and other personal forms of humorous communication
Internetifolkloor globaalse pandeemia ajal: Covid-19 Valgevene veebihuumoris
During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic (February–July 2020) I collected 374 textual jokes, humorous images, and image macros related to the coronavirus from Belarusian social media, friends, and family members. Many of the examples in my dataset became local memes, circulating within and beyond the Belarusian mediascape. While the Belarusian government’s dismissive response to the pandemic was unique among the Eastern European nations, …
Fännikultuuri loomine koroonakriisis Eesti ja Valgevene jalgpallijuhtumite näitel
The comparative study analyses the relationship between sports culture and the COVID-19 crisis based on the case studies of fan groups in Estonia and Belarus. Sports and the COVID-19 pandemic are closely interconnected. In the Estonian case, the official analysis results testify that during the first COVID-19 wave in spring 2020 the most affected region in the country was Saaremaa Island, where the virus was literally blown into the air by fan bu…
We came for the Sluts, but stayed for the Slutsk”: FK Slutsk Worldwide Facebook page between ironic and genuine football fandom
In spring 2020, with most national football (soccer) leagues being suspended, fans from around the world turned to the Belarusian Premier League — Europe’s only championship to continue amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In March, a group of Australian football fans created the FK Slutsk Worldwide Facebook group, dedicated to the eponymous Belarusian club, which quickly transformed into a diverse online community. Initially, the group demonstrated many …
Children as Agents, Targets, and Intermediaries of Family Humour
The paper focuses on the humour produced by, aimed at, or referring to children in family communication. It seeks to establish which roles children play in family's humorous communication, and how these roles reflect their agency in the interactions with parents. The research results show that much of family humour is generated by children either consciously or unconsciously. Many of children's idiosyncratic words that provoke laughter when they …
Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media
Conspiracy theories have accompanied vaccination since its mass introduction, circulating, among other forms, in humour – such as cartoons, and now, memes. Importantly, humour has targeted both vaccination and anti-vaccination stances. In this study, we discuss the peculiarities of humorous content within the vaccination debate and uncover the most popular thematic categories, forms and logical mechanisms of humour. We show that humorous and seri…
The cute and the fluffy: Pets, Humour and Personalisation in Political Communication
When serious official political statements are not enough to get people’s votes, politicians often turn to attention-grabbing and emotion-triggering self-presentation. They give the public access to their “normal, everyday” lives through personalisation and use other tools of “new” politics to create a favourable image of themselves. They can also show the unexpected, backstage aspects of their lives, such as their interactions with their pets. T…
Lilia Duskaeva: The ethics of humour in online Slavic media communication
When You Try to Tell People about Climate Change, and They Start Making Memes about You’: The Meaning-Making in Greta Thunberg Internet Memes
This article discusses humorous memes dedicated to climate change activist Greta Thunberg. The analysis of the 264 memes illustrates that Thunberg’s environmental agenda is not central among the memes’ topics. Many memes use the catchy phrases in Thunberg’s speeches, recontextualizing them to achieve humorous effects. While some memes aim at ridiculing Thunberg personally, others use her image metaphorically. Memes abound in intertextual referenc…
Heroes and Villains in Memes on the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Wars and other acute social conflicts are a fruitful ground for the emergence of heroes and villains. This is true for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: both the news media and ordinary people have found targets for villainisation (Russian president Vladimir Putin) and heroisation (Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy) since the outbreak of war. The article discusses how the public images of the two leaders appeared in internet memes colle…
Laughter and Sex Prolong Life: Current Trends in the Humour Practices of Russian-Speakers in Estonia
We investigate the humour production, consumption and sharing of Russian-speakers in Estonia, based on the self-reflections and self-perceptions of their humour preferences and other humour-related behaviour. By studying the representation of the humour practices of this important minority community we can get a more complete picture of humour in Estonia. Analysis of survey results reveals that according to Russian-speakers, among their favourite…
Vaude-villain and violent funster: Harley Quinn and humour
Harley Quinn is not only DC’s ever-yearning romantic Joker victim – a libidinous, self-centred coarse bumpkin in suspenders, who regularly gets thrashed without mercy – but also an eccentric clown and violent vaude-villain. We argue that the diversity of Harley Quinn’s personality as portrayed by different writers and impersonated by cosplay fans is intrinsically connected to the complex and multi-dimensional humour that is associated with the ch…
ISFNR’s 19 Congress “Folk Narratives in the Changing World”: Riga, Latvia, 17.–19. June 2024
Polarised but similar: Russian and Belarusian pro- and anti-democratic humour in the public sphere
Conflict divides society by bringing out opposing opinions and social, political and cultural difference. Humour becomes a way to disseminate and comment on opinions as well as to mark divisions in the public sphere. Even though humour is ambiguous in nature, its stance (Shifman 2014) is made evident through content and/or context. In cases where the content of pro- and anti-democratic humour is similar, meta-discourse decides the stance. In this…
Laughing and unlaughing at religion-related fake news in Estonia
Contemporary contacts and interactions with religion are often mediated by mass and social media. These sources vary in their reliability and some are known for their use of humor as a communicative strategy. In this article we analyze how humorous religion-related news triggers reactions to and discussions about the intertwined issues of humor, religion, history and ethnic identity. First, we look at how people perceive religion as an institutio…
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