Digital Humor by Alleen Pace Nilsen and Don L. F. Nilsen

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Digital Humor by Alleen Pace
Nilsen andDon L. F. Nilsen
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Computer Trouble Shooting
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Emogies
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Brian Willams Rapson Jimmy Fallons Tonight Show

• https//www.youtube.com/watch?v-YCeIgt7hMsfeatur
  eyoutube_gdata_player

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And look how far we have moved away from books,
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MY BLACKBERRYS NOT WORKING

• http//www.flixxy.com/my-blackberry-is-not-working
  .htm

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The First Digital CommunicationWith Real Digits
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Evolution of the Cell Phone
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The QWERTYUIOP Principle

• It is commonly believed that the QWERTYUIOP
  keyboard was invented in order to slow down the
  typist and keep the keys from jamming.
• Actually, only the first part of this belief is
  true. QWERTYUIOP was invented not to slow down
  the typist but rather to speed up the keyboard by
  keeping the keys from jamming.
• When typewriters were first invented, the letters
  that were used most often frequently jammed
  together, so the QWERTYUIOP keyboard was
  designed to separate these letters from each
  other.
• Nevertheless, today, whenever something is
  designed to slow us down rather than speed it up,
  this design is said to be following the
  QWERTYUIOP principle.

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Millenials and Beyond
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Intentional Cell Phone Humor
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Accidental Cell Phone Humor
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Everybody is now a news photographer for
Hurricanes, Meteors, Floods, Police Actions
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and how far weve come with photos.
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Texting

• With a cell phone, we are able to escape the
  moment.
• This increases our social audience, and allows us
  to transcend.
• But is it always a good thing?

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Weve gone from talking to texting --at the
game --and at dinner
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--at the Art Museum --and in the car.
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BRB Be Right Back!
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Memes

• Memes allow us to combine pictures with text.
• The text in the top part of the meme gives us the
  historical context.
• The text in the lower part of the meme gives us
  the ironic spin.

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Memes give new meanings to old events
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Lazy College Student meme
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Philip Fry from Futurama
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Philosoraptor Memes are named after Velociraptor
dinosaurs.
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Photo Bombing
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A New York Times photo of students in BYUs
computer animation program Can you spot the
photo-bomber?
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Is this a photo-bomber?
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Changes in society, religion, and technology
cause anxieties that inspire new movements.

• FRANKENSTEIN became popular when scientists began
  experimenting with real bodies.
• In the 1800s American Tall Tales were humorous
  extensions of the strange things people found as
  they moved west.
• And in the 1970s, urban legends made fun of
  people facing new and scary technologies,
  including microwave ovens, organ transplants, and
  a lack of privacy.
• Zombies are now popular because of medical
  advances, aging populations and fears of
  biological warfare and pandemics.

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The Vine Application

• Vine is an application that allows users to take
  and post short video clips.
• The teller of verbal jokes has the luxury of
  taking their time in order to provide the
  information needed to understand the joke. This
  is especially true in a shaggy dog story.
• But Vines are 7 seconds long, so they require
  careful cutting and editing.
• They also require the use of stereotypes, so that
  the information can be presented quickly.
• Editorial cartoons also follow the 7-second rule
  for the same reasons.

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• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vhFL9omud1hQ
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vCpoWTcLOfhI

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Selfie!
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Selfies at Oscars, Tour de France Running of
the Bulls
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Selma, Alabama, 2015Selfies on the Edmund Pettus
Bridge
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As new concepts emerge, we recycle old words and
phrases from fantasy and science fiction.

• Godzillagram a huge packet
• Munchkins teenage techies
• Wabbit a mischievous program
• Sorcerers Apprentice Mode an indefinitely
  repeating program
• 42 the meaning of life, truth, and everything
• A Trojan Horse a program infiltrating a
  computer

• UTSL Use The Source Luke (from Star Wars)
• Obi-Wan-Error Off by One code from HAL (IBM) in
  2001, A Space Odyssey
• Tree Killers paper wasters from J. R. R.
  Tolkiens Lord of the Rings
• Code Police or Net Police thought police from
  Orwells 1984

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Millennials and Their Careers
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People can be addicted to Facebook, Twitter,
Vine, Tumblr and especially Video Games.
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Call and Response on Facebook
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More Call and Response on Facebook

• ELLEN DEGENERES In Your Facebook
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vtvjIs-fBFok
• MARK ZUCKERBERG FACEBOOK AD
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vls7wCgbmXYM

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Texting
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Example of a gender-based computer joke No
wonder you cant write. Youre not plugged in.
(Eschholz-Rosa-Clark 2009 105)
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• Peter Steiners 1993 cartoon in the New Yorker
  showed two dogs in front of a computer. One is
  remarking On the Internet, nobody knows youre a
  dog.
• Even Steiner was amazed at how popular it became.
• It not only reflected, but helped shape
  world-wide attitudes.

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We like making fun of computers.

• I have a spelling checker.
• It came with my PC.
• It plane lee marks four my revue
• Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
• Common spell-check mistakes include
• Untied States, Worth nothing that, and Fraud for
  Freud.

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• THE THE IMPOTENCE OF PROOFREADING (TAYLOR MALI)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vp_rwB5_3PQc

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Importance of the Rule of Three
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Because headlines are so short, they often
contain ambiguities
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These sentences are ambiguous computers dont
provide real world knowledge

• A cheesecake was on the table. It was delicious
  and was soon eaten.
• SIGN IN A CHURCH For those of you who have
  children and dont know it, we have a nursery
  downstairs.
• NEWSPAPER AD Our bikinis are exciting they are
  simply the tops.
• Its time to make smoking history!

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The Nilsen family enjoying a PowerPoint or a
Video Clip
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Challenges in the Digital World

• People want to create and post their own
  material.
• What goes out on the Internet has probably not
  had an editor, a director, or a producer.
• This results in originality and spontaneity, and
  also in questionable materials.

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Grammatical errors are commonas in this
Success Kid meme.
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Internet Shows

• INTERNET SHOWS EQUALS THREE
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v4EwSAzHj8VM
• INTERNET SHOWS JAKE AND AMIR
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?voHIWsvfwcRw

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Recent firings because of the digital
broadcasting of inappropriate humor

• In October 2013, White House staffer Jofi Joseph
  was fired for posting snarky and mean-spirited
  tweets under the handle of _at_natsecwonk.
• These tweets were a mix of leaking sensitive
  national security information, criticizing the
  White House policies, and insulting the
  personalities and appearances of national
  security officials.
• In his own apology or maybe defense, Joseph
  called it a parody account, and said he was
  only saying what everyone elsethought.

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Tumblr

• Tumblr is a website that is part social network
  and part microblogging.
• On Tumblr can be found list jokes, puns, parody,
  sarcasm and call and response.

Tumblrs Mighty Pixie (Teh Mighteh Pixeh)
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Tumblr Humor
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Pinterest Snow Humor
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Pinterest Haiku
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Video Game Inconsistency
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Video Game IronySmiling Children as Villains
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Compare Cartman on Southpark
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Video Game GlitchesPhotoshop Sorcerers
Apprentice Mode
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A Vine for Old People

• http//www.youtube.com/embed/qteu4ld_SCE?rel0

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In conclusion, Steiners joke is no longer
true.Today, if youre a dog on the web,
someone will find out.
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MOOCS Viral VideosGangnam Style has been
viewed by over 2 billion viewers on Youtube
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Which of these countries do we call for tech
support?

• School Bus in Japan

• School Bus in India

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Digital Humor Websites

• ANIMATOR VS. ANIMATION II
• http//www.metacafe.com/watch/689540/animator_vs_a
  nimation_2/
• BYU Computer Animation Team
• http//nyti.ms/ZfAFon
• CLEVERBOT
• http//cleverbot.com/
• THE MATHEMATICS OF HUMOR
• https//uofa.ualberta.ca/science/science-news/2015
  /november/the-snunkoople-effect
• MONTY PYTHON SPAM
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vanwy2MPT5RE
• TOP 50 POPULAR TEXT CHAT ACRONYMS (NETLINGO)
• http//www.netlingo.com/top50/popular-text-terms.p
  hp