We are happy to welcome you to the Internet Humor SIG! 

The SIG studies humour that emerges in online contexts. The internet has increasingly become a venue for generating and reproducing humour. It has an impact on the content and form of humour, the ways it spreads, and as well as on the reception of humorous messages. 

The SIG addresses important questions like the globalisation / localisation of humor, interactional aspects (e.g. asynchronicity) and metapragmatics of creating and sharing humour, the relationship between humour and hate speech, different genres of online humour, etc. The group aims at connecting researchers from different countries and disciplinary backgrounds. The collaboration within the group is focused on developing new interdisciplinary methodologies and giving an impulse to initiate joint research projects. 

The group welcomes everyone interested in online humour, and encourages students and early career researchers to join. Become a member of our group and turn laughing at memes into your job!