What is it about?
This article explores the uses and updates of the ancient genre of satire in social networks. It analyzes the Spanish Twitter account Masa Enfurecida to discover how satire works, provokes and is contested in the Internet. Using this example, the article proposes a research model for humorous tweets and the reactions they get from Twitter users.
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Why is it important?
The article proposes a research model for the humorous conversations in Twitter, which is open to debate and improvement.
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I hope that this article can contribute to the research of humorous conversation in the social networks as it proposes a model for analyzing tweets and chains of tweets. It also raises some questions about the impact of humorous controversies in the setting of the limits of humor in social networks that has led to changes in the legislation of public offenses in the Internet.
Ms. Marta Pérez-Pereiro
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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This page is a summary of: Getting the mob angry: The satire of Masa Enfurecida as political incorrectness in social networking, Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/humor-2016-0086.
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