Searching for Humor in Dehumanization

2021 ◽  
pp. 663-681
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Demsky
Keyword(s):  
South Park ◽  
Jewish Heritage ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Holocaust Humor ◽  
Computer Mediated Communications ◽  
Family Guy

During the last two decades, to varying degrees, some American sitcom writers have depicted Nazism and the Holocaust humorously. This sort of activity is visible on such shows as South Park, Family Guy, and Robot Chicken. Many of the writers associated with these comedies are of Jewish heritage; but the joking has stirred only limited controversy. This chapter examines the messaging, delivery, and impact in Holocaust humor. It answers questions such as: What are American comedy writers signaling with these absurd stories? How does their comedic employment contribute to a wider process of misremembering distorting, or diluting known Holocaust accounts? It also analyzes how computer-mediated communications—website like Hulu and Youtube—have transferred these false accounts beyond American audiences.

Searching for Humor in Dehumanization

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Demsky
Keyword(s):  
South Park ◽  
Jewish Heritage ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Holocaust Humor ◽  
Computer Mediated Communications ◽  
Family Guy

During the last two decades, to varying degrees, some American sitcom writers have depicted Nazism and the Holocaust humorously. This sort of activity is visible on such shows as South Park, Family Guy, and Robot Chicken. Many of the writers associated with these comedies are of Jewish heritage; but the joking has stirred only limited controversy. This chapter examines the messaging, delivery, and impact in Holocaust humor. It answers questions such as: What are American comedy writers signaling with these absurd stories? How does their comedic employment contribute to a wider process of misremembering distorting, or diluting known Holocaust accounts? It also analyzes how computer-mediated communications—website like Hulu and Youtube—have transferred these false accounts beyond American audiences.

Participatory Icons Specification for Expressing Intentions in Computer-Mediated Communications

2017 ◽  
pp. 414-435
Author(s):  
Julio Cesar Dos Reis ◽  
Cristiane Josely Jensen ◽  
Rodrigo Bonacin ◽  
Heiko Hornung ◽  
Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Computer Mediated Communications

scholarly journals Cyber-Mediation: Computer-Mediated Communications Medium Massaging the Message

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons ◽  
Robin Molyneaux Kennedy ◽  
Jon Michael Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Computer Mediated Communications

scholarly journals A study on the success of group formation and cohesiveness in virtual teams using computer mediated communications

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliel Melon ◽  
Yair Levy ◽  
Laurie P. Dringus
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Group Formation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Academic Major ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Computer Mediated Communications ◽  
Academic Year

While the Internet is a major business tool nowadays, individuals are still challenged to form teams and collaboration virtually. To evaluate the success of team formation in a virtual setting, this research study assessed the role of different computer-mediated communications (CMC) employed on the success of team formation measured by task performance (TP), team cohesiveness (TC), computer skills (CS) and social bond (SB), while assessing the differences on such relationships when controlled for gender, age, education level, academic major, as well as academic year. This research used analysis of variance (ANOVA) and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) to address the hypotheses proposed. Using three teams and 140 participants, the results indicated that there is a significance difference in the role of CMC levels employed on the level of perception of CS in team formation. Also, there is a significance difference in the role of CMC levels employed on the levels of TP, when controlled for gender. In addition, there is a significance difference in the role of CMC levels employed (No-CMS/F2F, OLS, & OLS+SNS) on the levels of CS, when controlled for education, academic major and academic year. The results of this study contribute to the body of knowledge by helping organizations identify ways to support effective team formations.

scholarly journals A Review on the Efficacy of Immediacy Factors towards Achieving Communication Satisfaction via Email among Academic Staff

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-241
Author(s):  
Chinedu Eugenia Anumudu ◽  
Mal-Imran Yasin ◽  
Ahmad Ghazali Akmar ◽  
Muhammad Pauzi Latif
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Communication Satisfaction ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Computer Mediated Communications

Abstract The review paper intensively explored immediacy factors influencing communication satisfaction through asynchronous computer mediated communication mediums. Immediacy is one of the constructs of social presence theory deemed capable of compelling communication satisfaction on asynchronous computer mediated communications. It has been established in numerous related studies conducted on asynchronous virtual mediated channels. However, little or no consideration seemed to have been given to exploring these immediacy factors towards ascertaining communication satisfaction via email, as one of the asynchronous mediated communications. The need to study this via email is essential, especially towards making it more efficient since it still remained the third means of communication predominantly used for dispatching corporate issues. In this review, prompt feedback, approachability and similarity personality were the dimensions of immediacy explored in relations to the effectiveness towards attaining communication satisfaction on asynchronous virtual communications. The findings showed that these dimensions examined were capable of inspiring immediacy towards achieving communication on asynchronous computer mediated channels. Therefore, it is expected that these may equally motivate communication satisfaction via email as one of asynchronous virtual mediums. It also showed that most of the studies so far conducted were dominated by qualitative and mixed-method approaches. Few quantitative studies encountered in the review appeared lacking the capacity of generalizing the outcomes due to respondents’ poor turnout rate and inadequate sample sizes issues. Thus, empirical quantitative studies are still needed via email mode of interaction in order to resolve these issues and for revalidating the outcomes of the review.

Rediscovering Traces of Memory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Webber ◽  
Chris Schwarz ◽  
Jason Francisco
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Life ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Local People ◽  
Jewish Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Jewish Heritage ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Bear Witness

The present-day traces of the Jewish past in Poland are complex. Jewish life lay in ruins after the Holocaust. Much evidence of ruin remains, but there are also widespread traces that bear witness to the elaborate Jewish culture that once flourished there, even in villages and small towns. One also sees places where Jews were murdered by the Germans in the war: not only in death camps and ghettos, but also in fields, forests, rivers, and cemeteries. After the war, forty years of communism suppressed even the memory of the destroyed Jewish heritage. Today, by contrast, the historic Jewish culture of Poland is increasingly being memorialized, by local Poles as well as by foreign Jews. Synagogues and cemeteries are being renovated, monuments and museums are being set up. There are festivals of Jewish culture, hasidic pilgrims, and Jewish tourists; and local people who rescued Jews during the war are being honoured. In rediscovering the traces of memory one also finds clear signs of a local Jewish revival. This extensively revised second edition includes forty-five new photographs and updated explanatory texts. Together they suggest how to make sense of the past and discover its relevance for the present. This book will appeal to everyone concerned with questions of history, memory, and identity.

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