RELİGİOUS HUMOR DİGİTALİZED BY NEW MEDİA

Abstract

The relationship between religion and humor has been little studied in a religious context. The main purpose of the study, which focuses on the entertaining appearance of religious-themed visuals in social media and their comforting qualities, is to determine that religious humor in physical life has turned into a digital form in electronic media. For this purpose, Facebook application, which has millions of users in Turkey, was chosen as a sample. Visuals with religious content are handled particularly in line with the approaches of Morreal, and with Thorson and Powell, who conduct research in a framework close to him. Content analysis model, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. As a result of the study, it has been seen that the religious humor that exists in social life continues its existence in a digital form in the electronic environment. In the visuals analyzed during the research process, traces of religiously recommended humor are seen mostly. As with other humor types, religious humor elements are produced for the purpose of coping with life's difficulties, forgetting the troubles and relaxing psychologically, having fun, motivating oneself in a positive way, showing a positive perspective in the face of negative situations, making other people laugh, creating fun social environments through humor.