Online humour as a community-building cushioning glue

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 a...

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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
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Online Access:https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/65