Just Laugh It Off: Humor, VET TV, and the Possibilities of Resilience

dc.contributor.author	Armenta, John E.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2023-09-19T18:59:08Z	en
dc.date.available	2023-09-19T18:59:08Z	en
dc.date.issued	2022-10	en
dc.description.abstract	Humor has potential for assisting trauma survivors and their resilience. Vet TV is an online comedy network creating humor to help veterans recover from their psychological wounds, connect with other veterans, and create resilience to prevent suicide. In this paper I explore the connections between humor and resilience after trauma and how Vet TV argues its comedy helps veterans. By focusing on the communicative functions of humor we can better understand the potentials and pitfalls of humor when used by veterans for the purpose of creating community and the possibility of resilience.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/116301	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Veterans in Society	en
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/	en
dc.subject	Veterans	en
dc.subject	Humor	en
dc.title	Just Laugh It Off: Humor, VET TV, and the Possibilities of Resilience	en
dc.type	Conference proceeding	en
dc.type.dcmitype	Text	en