Factors of Black Humor Popularity

DOI

10.2991/cesses-18.2018.85How to use a DOI?

Keywords

black humor; disaster humor; psychological distance; mass media; trolling; public death; private death

Abstract

Black humor is the most ambiguous kind of humor, able to awaken in a person a whole range of emotions and feelings - shock, disgust, shame, joy. What is black humor? How is it different from other types of humor? What factors affect the success or social failure of a black joke? Here is a list of questions which we have tried to answer in this paper. Based on the results of "disaster humor" studies, we have also considered the media influence in the perception formation of black humor public death and popularity growth. Particular attention is paid to the effect of multiple repetition of the same-type information, which, even in the case of socially significant problems, pushes society first to indifference and then to laughter. In cases of especially painful topics for a person – such as the theme of death, black humor can serve a protective reaction from excessive repetition of emotionally painful information.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nikolay N. Gubanov
AU  - Nikolay I. Gubanov
AU  - Ludmila Rokotyanskaya
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - Factors of Black Humor Popularity
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 379
EP  - 383
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/cesses-18.2018.85
DO  - 10.2991/cesses-18.2018.85
ID  - Gubanov2018/11
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