DELIAH - Democratic Literacy and Humour
Published June 30, 2025 | Version 1 - Final
Dataset Open

Humour practices and European attitudes towards democracy - data documentation

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon University of the Basque Country
  • 2. Universidad del País Vasco - Campus Bizkaia
  • 3. University of Tartu
  • 4. ROR icon Ghent University
  • 5. ROR icon Comenius University Bratislava
  • 6. ROR icon University of Groningen

Description

This document outlines the scope and key features of the 'Humour Practices and European Attitudes Toward Democracy' dataset, including the procedure followed for its production.
The database collects and classifies relevant studies on humour practices, attitudes toward democracy, and modes of civic engagement in the six countries of the DELIAH consortium: Belgium, Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Spain. 

The dataset pursues two goals:
1) it contributes to a subsequent meta-analysis of humour studies, democratic participation, and civic engagement in online and offline spaces across Europe, which will be carried out by the DELIAH consortium, and
2) it serves as a collective resource for additional DELIAH project tasks, including the design of focus groups and surveys.

More broadly, the dataset has also been designed to appeal to scholars outside of the DELIAH consortium who work at the intersection of humour and democracy.

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DELIAH - M1-MS1.1 - Database of humour practices assembled and catalogued - v1 - 20250619.pdf

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Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.5281/zenodo.15756409

Dates

Submitted
2025-06-30
Pending approval Horizon Europe.

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