Summary
Social interaction affects a society’s members in critically important ways.
Social interaction is guided by shared meanings.
Reality is socially constructed.
People engage in impression management.
The text describes the role humor plays in our constructions of reality beginning on p. 155 in the text.
You can find examples of computer-related humor a a number of
sites online including:
Do you think that there is cross-cultural understanding of these computer/interent jokes?
Is the language of computer technologies a new lingua franca (common language)?