Who's in charge? Our weekly cartoon, this time by José Alberto Rodríguez Avila. #democracy #DELIAH #humour
Democratic Literacy and Humour
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Democratic Literacy and Humour (DELIAH) examines the relationship between humour and democracy in Europe. www.deliah.eu
DELIAH will be at the Dutch Journalism Festival next month with our workshop 'The Importance of Humour for Democracy: Good Humour versus Bad Humour': deliaheu.substack.com/p/deliah-at-... #NLJF #democracy #humour #DELIAH
Contemporary Satire Controversies: Cases, Conditions, Consequences The 2026 SatiReNet Conference, taking place on 19-20 November 2026 at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, has issued a call for papers (CFP): deliaheu.substack.com/p/contempora... Cartoon by Osama Hajjaj.
Satire! Our weekly cartoon on Friday, this one by Paolo Lombardi/Cartoon Movement #humour #Democracy #CharlieHebdo #satire #DELIAH
📬 @deliah.eu has published on its newsletter the report of my conference "Humour and Public Deliberation", given at the workshop "Public Opinion and Democratic Civil Engagement" (June 18, @unav.edu) deliaheu.substack.com/p/humour-and...
Humour and Public Deliberation
Workshop at the University of Navarra
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It’s funny because it’s (not) true. AI is expanding the possibilities for humour, but is also making it more difficult for the audience to decide what is real and what is satire. Read more: deliaheu.substack.com/p/its-funny-... Cartoon by Zach. #ArtificialIntelligence #humour #democracy
Our cartoon on Friday, this week by Halit Aytoslu Kurtulmus/Cartoon Movement. #democracy #humour #DELIAH
On 18 June 2026, DELIAH member Aitor Castañeda-Zumeta gave a workshop at the University of Navarra. Find out more about humour as a tool for (political) communication on our Substack: deliaheu.substack.com/p/humour-and... Photos: Manuel Castells, University of Navarra
On Thursday 18 I participated in the workshop ‘Public Opinion and Democratic Civil Engagement’ in @unav.edu. I presented the results of the meta-analysis of contemporary humour practices & democratic attitudes conducted by we ehu.eus researchers into the @deliah.eu consortium. (📸 M. Castells, UNAV).
Democracy tool. Our cartoon on Friday, this week by Muzzafar Yulchiboev/Cartoon Movement. #democracy #humour #DELIAH
We have just published another interview with one of DELIAH's researchers. This time we talk to Irina Dulebová from the Comenius University. The team from Bratislava is working on analysing humour and fostering democratic participation in times of conflict: deliaheu.substack.com/p/it-is-impo...
The University of Göttingen organised a lecture series titled Laughing in times of crisis. Various members of the DELIAH team traveled to Göttingen to talk about the different aspects of humour. Check out recordings of the lectures here: deliaheu.substack.com/p/videos-lau...
Democracies are made of hopes and dreams. Our weekly cartoon, by Taravat Niki/Cartoon Movement.
The Appeals Centre Europe is an independent out-of-court dispute settlement body. A recent report shows the importance of dispute settlement bodies in helping users challenge platform decisions: deliaheu.substack.com/p/the-need-t... #DELIAH #SocialMedia #ContentModeration
We are happy to announce we've launched a searchable database of legal cases and online content moderation decisions regarding disparaging humour and freedom of expression: www.forhum.org/webapp/legal... Cartoon by Moz. #DELIAH #humour #democracy #SocialMedia
Our third newsletter is out! In this newsletter, you will find our latest research updates, but also a report from our annual meeting in Estonia, videos from our session at the International Journalism Festival, and more: deliaheu.substack.com/p/deliah-new... Cartoon by Enrico Bertuccioli
Civilizational pyre. This week's cartoon, by Sinisa Pismestrovic. #democracy #humour #InternationalLaw
From April 22 to April 25, the members of DELIAH came together in Estonia for our annual project meeting and a two-day workshop titled "Humour Matters: Laughter and Democracy." Read more about it here: deliaheu.substack.com/p/annual-mee... #DELIAH #humour #democracy #event
Surveillance society. Our weekly cartoon, this time by Angelo Lopez. Want to know more about DELIAH? Go to deliaheu.substack.com #DELIAH #humour #democracy
Last week, we were present at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. Here, we presented an interactive workshop to encourage reflection on the role of humour within the public debate. The session was recorded, and you can watch it here: deliaheu.substack.com/p/video-the-... #DELIAH
We are interviewing every member of the DELIAH team, to give you some more insight into who we are, why we research humour and what we think is funny. In this edition we talk to Ismet Suleimanov from the University of Tartu in Estonia. Check it our here: deliaheu.substack.com/p/from-an-ea...
Democracy repair service. Our weekly cartoon, this time by Giorgi Nanava. Check out DELIAH partner Cartoon Movement for more cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com #DELIAH #humour #democracy
We are interviewing every member of the DELIAH team, to give you some more insight into who we are, why we research humour and what we think is funny. In this edition we talk to Aitor Castañeda-Zumeta from the University of the Basque Country in Spain. Read the full interview here: buff.ly/Z0UikzT
DELIAH partner University of Göttingen is organising a lecture series titled 'Lachen in Krisenzeiten' (Laughter in times of crisis). Most lectures are in German, but there is an English-language workshop and lecture on June 9. More info: deliaheu.substack.com/p/laughter-i... #DELIAH #event #humour
