The medium is the joke: Online humor about and by networked computers

New Media and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1348-1367

  Shifman, Limor ^a   Blondheim, Menahem ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

computers; geeks; human machine interface; humor; ICT humor; internet; jokes; Luddism; Microsoft; tech support

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650298785     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810365311     Document Type: Article

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