Humor 2.0

Humor 2.0The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged.

Following an introduction delineating the histories of the film industries of the countries that make up the Middle East and Central Asia – including Iran

bears comparison with the innovations of Man Ray and Lee Miller

the cards were produced for mass audiences in China

the work of Cecilia Bartolomé casts a new light on the histories of both Spanish national film

This investigation of women's part in civic life provides a fresh approach to the 'public sphere'

Among the topics included in the book are prostitution

with the consensus of opinion among scholars as to its exact nature and influence shifting considerably over the years

Direct Democracy shows when government by the people can improve democratic governance

researching and writing of spatial histories

Comprehensive in scope

Refuting popular concepts of the self as separate beings

This feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self