The power of memes: personification as a marker of psychological distance in memes about the war in Ukraine

L Laineste, A Fiadotava, S Troitskiy, G Castañar - HUMOR, 2024 - degruyter.com
Memes offer responsive acute commentary on controversial societal matters, providing non-
violent and democratic spaces of discussion for conflicts. The paper studies memes on the …

Group boundaries in humor in the online public sphere

A Fiadotava, W Chłopicki - HUMOR, 2024 - degruyter.com
One of the fundamental functions of humor is establishing the boundaries between groups.
While it is very easy to trace this function in private settings, it often becomes more …

Polarised but similar: Russian and Belarusian pro-and anti-democratic humour in the public sphere

L Laineste, A Fiadotava - The European Journal of Humour Research, 2024 - ceeol.com
Conflict divides society by bringing out opposing opinions and social, political and cultural
difference. Humour becomes a way to disseminate and comment on opinions as well as to …

[PDF][PDF] Eastern Journal of European Studies

P Sukhorolskyi, I Sukhorolska - ejes.uaic.ro
The paper deals with the study of Ukraine's public diplomacy in the conditions of the
Russian-Ukrainian war. The research looks into the environment, actors, and goals of the …