Engaging Audiences Online: Humor as a Tool for Science Communication

Michael Cacciatore “Engaging Audiences Online: Humor as a Tool for Science Communication.” Invited keynote presentation to the Public Online Engagement with Science Information (POESI) workshop at the Technology University of Braunschweig in Braunschweig, Germany, May 2022. Talk Summary: An overview of NSF-funded research findings focused on humor as a means of engaging audiences around science topics. My talk focused on findings from two data collections with embedded experiments focused on humor types.