«Черный юмор» в российской народной журналистике (на материале коллективного переживания в социальных сетях взрыва метеорита над Челябинском)

Black humor in Russian citizen journalism (an example of collective perception in social networks after Chelyabinsk's meteor explosion)

This article is devoted to the jokes on Chelyabinsk's meteor that exploded over this region on February 15, 2013. They were posted on the social networks for several months, but mostly on the day of the event. The author gives an interpretation of the jokes and classifies them. The article focuses on the network users' "black humor" which is seen as a strong mass reaction to this stress. The author observes a consolidation of the users efforts that tend towards the "most successful joke" that will convey/reflect the inhabitants' complex feelings. "Failed" jokes are immediately "disliked" and often stimulate the next humoristic expressions or images. The article is an attempt to clarify the mechanisms and logics of network users-creativity.