Early Titanic jokes : A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes?

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F19%3A00108852" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/19:00108852 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/humr/32/2/article-p201.xml" target="_blank" >https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/humr/32/2/article-p201.xml</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2018-0090" target="_blank" >10.1515/humor-2018-0090</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Early Titanic jokes : A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This paper contributes to our understanding of the inception of disaster humor by refuting the position of 'technological determinism' that is central for the theory of disaster jokes. This view, developed by Christie Davies, ties the emergence of this form of humor to the visual presentation of disaster events on television. The paper reports on the discovery of several contemporary instances of pre-television disaster humor on the topic of the sinking of the Titanic from 1912, thereby explicitly challenging the premise that prior to televised coverage, there were no disaster jokes. While the data come from a culture that was cognitively very distant from the disaster (and, thus, more likely to give rise to instantaneous disaster humor creation), the paper suggests that a modification to the original theory is possible, arguing that disaster humor can be interpreted as a reaction to the more general process of mediatization, whether televisual or exclusively verbal, which constructs a shared body of knowledge that people can draw upon as a resource when constructing humor. That is particularly the case with iconic disasters, such as the sinking of the Titanic, which can be seen symbolically as an epic fail of modernity rather than a mere tragic disaster.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Early Titanic jokes : A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes?

Popis výsledku anglicky

This paper contributes to our understanding of the inception of disaster humor by refuting the position of 'technological determinism' that is central for the theory of disaster jokes. This view, developed by Christie Davies, ties the emergence of this form of humor to the visual presentation of disaster events on television. The paper reports on the discovery of several contemporary instances of pre-television disaster humor on the topic of the sinking of the Titanic from 1912, thereby explicitly challenging the premise that prior to televised coverage, there were no disaster jokes. While the data come from a culture that was cognitively very distant from the disaster (and, thus, more likely to give rise to instantaneous disaster humor creation), the paper suggests that a modification to the original theory is possible, arguing that disaster humor can be interpreted as a reaction to the more general process of mediatization, whether televisual or exclusively verbal, which constructs a shared body of knowledge that people can draw upon as a resource when constructing humor. That is particularly the case with iconic disasters, such as the sinking of the Titanic, which can be seen symbolically as an epic fail of modernity rather than a mere tragic disaster.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Humor - International Journal of Humor Research

ISSN

0933-1719

e-ISSN

1613-3722

Svazek periodika

32

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

25

Strana od-do

201-225

Kód UT WoS článku

000471869200006

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85064389532