Political humor in context of modern internet-communication

The article shows tendencies of development of the Internet during the last decades in a whole world generally and particularly in Russia. Against the background of the rapid development of the Internet social media as one of the main channel of modern communication also grow their popularity. Therefore, in this article, Internet users are considered by the author as participants of political communication in the described media space. While the role of visual information is increasing, political humour becoming one of the main ways of political communication at this stage of development of media communications, and political humour itself acquires specific forms and ways of expression.