[Commlist] GMD Vol 3 No 3: “AnyMedia… is hilarious”

We are pleased to announce that Galactica Media Volume 3 No. 3 (2021) 
"Any Media... is hilarious" has been released and is available on the 
Journal's website: https://galacticamedia.com <https://galacticamedia.com>

*Description:
*It is difficult to imagine a society where humor is completely absent. 
 From ancient times to the present day, this phenomenon performs the 
most important functions: from psychological détente to reflection of 
the socio-cultural and political atmosphere in which this or that 
community resides. Since the XVIII century, it has also become an 
instrument of mass communication and political struggle, and becomes an 
integral part of the mass media.

We used in the title of this special issue for a reason the paraphrase 
of Will Rogers' saying in Marshall McLuhan's book "Media Understanding" 
(the original sounds like this: "Any newspaper read aloud from a theater 
stage is hilarious"), because the well-known thesis of the Toronto 
School of Communication Theory about the mutual influence of 
communication and the media, which transmits it, can be reactivated in 
the direction of the mutual influence of humor as a way to interpret 
information, on the one hand, and specific media as a way to convey this 
information, on the other. But in this context a number of important 
issues for modern communications researchers arise: what happens to 
media once it is "infected" by humor? Does humor necessarily satisfy the 
need for entertainment, as claimed by Neil Postman? Can humor have a 
"serious face"? Parody, caricature, irony, satire -- is there something 
constructive in them for communication? Does "Humor is always a monopoly 
of the semi-literate" (McLuhan)?

Issue Editor: Sergey A. Troitskiy, Herzen State Pedagogical University 
of Russia / Saint Petersburg State University. Saint Petersburg, Russia. 
Email: (sergtroy /at/ yandex.ru)
<mailto:(sergtroy /at/ yandex.ru)>
*Content*

*Introduction*
Sergey A. Troitskiy, Rastyam T. Aliev
“Any Media… is hilarious”: Introduction to the Issue
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.219 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.219>

*General Humor Theory
*Arkadiusz Bednarczuk; Sergey A. Troitskiy
The Genealogy of Ancient Comedy in the Representation of Olga 
Mikhailovna Freidenberg (Russian Translation)
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.220 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.220>

Tatiana A. Balakireva, Mariia N. Mogilevich
On the Educational Potential of Humor, Science Fiction, and Game
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.190 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.190>

*Humor in the “Old” Media
*Viktor L. Levchenko, Nina I. Kovalova
The Boundaries of Funniness and the Dilution of Audience Identity in the 
Musical-Dramatic Art
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.197 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.197>

Beata Waligorska-Olejniczak
Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Remediation of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s 
Traditions. The Case of “Leviathan” and “The Golovlyov Family”
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.178 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.178>

Victoria Baltag
Humour in Film as a Method of Expression
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.205 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.205>

Jack Black
Slipping on Banana Skins and Falling Through Bars: “True” Comedy and the 
Comic Character
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.172 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.172>

*From Сaricature to Internet Meme
*Elena S. Sonina
The Literary Canon in the Russian Magazine and Newspaper Cartoons of the 
late 19th - early 20th centuries
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.194 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.194>

Aleksandra G. Zhuravleva
The Caricatures of Pavel. E. Shcherbov in the Satirical Magazine “The 
Jester”
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.183 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.183>

Anna I. Rezvukhina
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”: the Representation of the Far East 
Countries in the Russian Caricatures of 1890-1905
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.189 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.189>

Lidia S. Zhirnova
Russia and Other Significant Others in Latvian Caricatures
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.196 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.196>

Denis S. Artamonov
Humor in Historical Memory: from an Anecdote and Caricature to an 
Internet Meme
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.181 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.181>

*Funny COVID-19
*Anna Luise Kiss
Humorous Audio-Visual Lockdown Works
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.175 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.175>

Elena E. Zavyalova
Russian Anecdotes on the "Corona" Theme: Problematics and Poetics
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.221 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.221>

*New Issues of New Media
*Catherine Evans Davies; Maria V. Semikolennykh
The Interpretive Challenges of American Presidential Discourse Described 
as Joking (Russian Translation)
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.222 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.222>

David Layton
Being Human: Androids, Humans, and Identity in “Red Dwarf”
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.173 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.173>

Bethany Rose Lamont
Amusing Abusers and Humourless Survivors: Analysing the Role of Comedy 
in Media Representations of Sexual Violence
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.134 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.134>

Irina P. Busurkina
Ethics and Values in the Digital Environment: by the Example of Parody 
Videos on TikTok
https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.137 
<https://doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v3i3.137>


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