Mit der ungebrochenen Relevanz sozialer Medien und der ständigen Weiterentwicklung der Online-Kommunikation gewinnen Memes zunehmend an Popularität. Es gibt es nur wenige wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zur Werbewirksamkeit von Memes. Die vorliegende Studie soll diese Wissenslücke...

Humor identification in text is essential for natural language understanding, impacting human-computer interactions and emotion recognition. This study introduces a novel approach to automatic humor identification in text using ensemble learning techniques. The objective is to classify text into...

Purpose Social practices of work humor among engineering workers are a lesser studied phenomenon. We examine the social practices of an engineering work team through acts of a peculiar form of humorous expression we identify as installation humor. In these cases of installation humor, an...

With the literally ever-lasting relevance of social media and the constant development of online communication, memes are more and more gaining popularity. So far there is only little scientific research on the advertising effectiveness of memes. This study aims to close this knowledge gap and...

Purpose The purpose of this article is to investigate the communicative constitution of organizational inclusion and/or exclusion through humorous acts at the expense of members of minorities and/or historically disadvantaged groups. Design/methodology/approach Semistructured interviews with 84...

The aim of this study is to investigate the multilevel effect of leader affiliative humor on knowledge sharing behavior. Based on social information processing (SIP) theory, we frame a multilevel model of the effect of leader affiliative humor on employee knowledge sharing, focusing on the...

Purpose: The goal of this article is to understand the rationale of Humorous Communication Theory (HCT) and illustrate its applications in meme marketing, stand-up comedy business, and machine joking.Design/Methodology/Approach: The approach is based on three steps. First, we do a quick review...

This book contains over 300 “winning” captions for more than 50 cartoons used in cartoon captioning contests that were published over 14 years in the Dispute Resolution Magazine, a quarterly publication of the American Bar Association’s Section on Dispute Resolution. Also included are...

Purpose - This study aims to use the ego depletion theory to examine the impact of hindrance stressors on knowledge sharing behaviors by investigating the mediating role of ego depletion and the moderating role of self-enhancing humor. Design/methodology/approach - Data were obtained from a...

The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between the positive (self-enhancing, affiliative) and negative (self-defeating, aggressive) use of humor of leaders and the organizational creativity of employees. The moderating role of organizational tenure in the relationship...