"Internet memes in an age of global culture”

Plaats en tijd: 

10 May, 3-5pm in BG2 0.12

Asaf Nissenbaum is a post-doctoral fellow at the Communication Department, University of Haifa. In his doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, received in 2021, he conducted cross-cultural comparative analyses of user-generated humor in five languages. His work examined the role of digital humor and media in shaping global digital culture and its localized enclaves. Asaf has received the Hebrew University's President’s Scholarship for Outstanding PhD Students, the Open University of Israel's Post-doctoral Fellowship Grant, and the University of Haifa's Bloom Post-doctoral Scholarship. His research has been published in prestigious journals including New Media & Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and Information, Communication & Society. His main research interests are the intersections of digital humor, identities, and boundaries, and their role in our social and political discourse.