Did You Hear the One About the Doctor? An Examination of Doctor Jokes Posted on Facebook

Autor: Davis, Matthew A, Haney, Carol Sue, Weeks, William B, Sirovich, Brenda E, Anthony, Denise L
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Journal of Medical Internet Research, Vol 16, Iss 2, p e41 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1438-8871
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2797
Popis: BackgroundSocial networking sites such as Facebook have become immensely popular in recent years and present a unique opportunity for researchers to eavesdrop on the collective conversation of current societal issues. ObjectiveWe sought to explore doctor-related humor by examining doctor jokes posted on Facebook. MethodsWe performed a cross-sectional study of 33,326 monitored Facebook users, 263 (0.79%) of whom posted a joke that referenced doctors on their Facebook wall during a 6-month observation period (December 15, 2010 to June 16, 2011). We compared characteristics of so-called jokers to nonjokers and identified the characteristics of jokes that predicted joke success measured by having elicited at least one electronic laugh (eg, an LOL or “laughing out loud”) as well as the total number of Facebook “likes” the joke received. ResultsJokers told 156 unique doctor jokes and were the same age as nonjokers but had larger social networks (median Facebook friends 227 vs 132, P
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