From <i>The Daily Show</i> to <i>Last Week Tonight</i>: A Quantitative Analysis of Discursive Integration in Satirical Television News

Brugman, Britta C.; Burgers, Christian; Beukeboom, Camiel J.; Konijn, Elly A.

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2021.1929416

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“…At the international level, Gray et al (2009) acknowledge that, although satirical television content is intended to give citizens a better "ability to watch the political process at work," it often achieves the opposite effect and "attract[s] more ridicule than ardent viewers" (p. 3). Similarly, some research corroborates the blurring of the boundaries between fiction and regular news found in shows such as satirical news programs, which has been quantitatively tested both in long-running American programs such as The Daily Show (Comedy Central, 1996) and more recent shows such as Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO, 2014), which are characterized by their hybrid nature and by the inclusion of opinion (Brugman et al, 2021).…”

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Concurrences and divergences between Spanish infotainment comedy professionals and audiences

García

2022

EPI

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Infotainment comedy is the branch of infotainment that mixes current affairs content with comedy. “Infotainment” is a relatively new term, first cited by Krüger (1988); as a television trend, academics agree that it must have existed much earlier, with English-language examples such as Saturday Night Live (NBC, 1975) or That was the week that was (BBC, 1962). In Spain, the roots of infotainment lie in Caiga quien caiga (Telecinco, 1996), a precursor to satirical pseudojournalism (García-Avilés, 1999). Nowadays, there are programs that present current affairs with comedy, as in the case of El intermedio (La Sexta, 2006) or Todo es mentira (Cuatro, 2019). Owing to the continuous evolution of formats and their complex definition and classification by academics and professionals, it is worth considering whether audiences also interpret the different programs in different ways depending on their elements, given that they depend on an “intuitive understanding” (Reinemann et al., 2011; Otto et al., 2017) that stems from the habit of repeated consumption. This article presents the results of a reception study contrasting Spanish infotainment comedy professionals and their audiences to assess whether their impressions of these shows are similar or if, on the contrary, their hybrid nature is so changeable that they have come to interpret them in a very different way. The methodology involved ten discussion groups with a total of 87 viewers and 13 interviews with professionals from four programs: El intermedio, Todo es mentira, Ese programa del que usted me habla (La 2, 2019), and La resistencia (Movistar+, 2018). According to the statements collected, the results revealed that audiences and content creators show more points of divergence than concurrences, which means that the messages are interpreted differently from how they were intended.

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Concurrences and divergences between Spanish infotainment comedy professionals and audiences

García

2022

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“…The two programs are similar in format and style, consisting of satirical segments presented by a host behind a news desk in front of a live audience. Since the programs include investigative and interpretative segments that also address issues outside the traditional news spotlight, they could be described as opinion news formats (Brugman et al 2021), and they are both examples of the satire subgenre journalistic news satire (Koivukoski and Ödmark 2020). In this study, episodes of the satirical programs were subjected to a content analysis with both quantitative and qualitative aspects.…”

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Moral Judgment and Social Critique in Journalistic News Satire

Ödmark

2023

Journalism and Media

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Journalistic news satire is a satire subgenre that is gaining legitimacy in academic research as well as in the journalistic field as an opinion news format and arena for public debate. News satirists claim journalistic roles and operate under the mandate of exposing moral wrongs and auditing power. The development of a more substantial news satire coincides with an observed repoliticization of humor and comedy and intensified moral negotiation around comedic content, particularly on social media. Based on the Moral Foundation Theory, this study identifies moral judgments in journalistic news satire, using a content analysis of TV news satire material from Sweden and the U.S. The results show an overwhelming majority of moral judgments related to the individualizing foundations of Harm and Fairness, while the binding foundations of Ingroup, Authority, and Purity were less frequent. In addition, the results show strong similarities between the two countries in the material, indicating moral common ground and displaying how moral judgment is connected to the inherent nature of satire in general and the genre conventions of journalistic news satire in particular.

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“…Sardinha and Pinto (2019) identified the dimensions of variation across American television programs. Brugman et al (2021) collected transcripts of satirical news shows, regular news shows, and fiction shows to identify register dimensions, and patterns in linguistic features unique to genres, which we used to determine the presence of discursive integration. Pinto and Sardinha (2014) analyzed the discourse evolution of American films from 1930 to 2010, identified 7 dimensions, and used ANOVA to analyze the variation.…”

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A Multi-Dimensional Contrastive Analysis on English Abstracts in Chinese Master’s Theses and International Core Journal Articles

Shi,

Liu

2023

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As a signpost for the reader, the abstract contains the main body of a thesis and summarizes the most important information in an article. Thus, it is essential for assessing the quality and value of a thesis. This research aims to provide insight into the linguistic features of English abstract writing. Based on the multi-dimensional analysis approach proposed by Biber (1988), this study investigates the difference in English abstracts between the Chinese master’s theses (CMT) and the international core journal article (ICJA). With the help of the MAT (Multi-dimensional Analysis Tagger 1.3) analysis tool, the corpus of 100 English abstracts from these 2 resources has been analyzed for comparison of the functional and lexical-grammatical features in 6 dimensions. The results show that there are differences between CMT and ICJA’s English abstracts in dimension 4 (Overt Expression of Persuasion) and dimension 6 (On-line Informational Elaboration), and 25 linguistic features across these 6 dimensions. The results help learners identify the differences in dimensions and linguistic features between their English abstracts and those written by experts to improve their abstract writing and to write more native-like theses.

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From The Daily Show to Last Week Tonight: A Quantitative Analysis of Discursive Integration in Satirical Television News

Cited by 15 publications

References 59 publications

Concurrences and divergences between Spanish infotainment comedy professionals and audiences

Concurrences and divergences between Spanish infotainment comedy professionals and audiences

Moral Judgment and Social Critique in Journalistic News Satire

A Multi-Dimensional Contrastive Analysis on English Abstracts in Chinese Master’s Theses and International Core Journal Articles

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