Online humour as a community-building cushioning glue

Online humour as a community-building cushioning glue

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This article examines the uses and functions of humour in an online community of gamers and nonprofessional game designers who present and critique user-generated artefacts created with the popular game series LittleBigPlanet. Findings show that participants use humour and “good humour” to achieve...

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Main Author:	Vittorio Marone
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies 2015-08-01
Series:	The European Journal of Humour Research
Subjects:	humour on the Internet humour in computer-mediated-communication (CMC) discursive functions of humour online gaming communities LittleBigPlanet
Online Access:	https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/65

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