Political Culture Jamming: The Dissident Humor of “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart”

Warner, Jamie

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“…Anti‐hegemonic humor, on the other hand, simultaneously represents and challenges hegemonic discourses, directing the audience's laughter at people and institutions with social power (e.g., white men, corporations) by exposing their biases and faults (Gilbert ; Santa Ana ). One of the longest‐running examples of anti‐hegemonic humor in mainstream entertainment media is Comedy Central's The Daily Show (1999–present), which uses humor to bring attention to “factual errors, logical contradictions, and incongruities in both the dominant political discourse and the media that disseminate it” (Warner :32) by openly criticizing political leaders, domestic and global policy, and news outlets such as Fox News and CNN. Krefting () makes a similar distinction to Santa Ana between what she labels “charged humor” and noncharged humor.…”

Section: Theoretical Contextmentioning

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Vine Racial Comedy as Anti‐Hegemonic Humor: Linguistic Performance and Generic Innovation

Calhoun

2019

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This paper analyzes the semiotic features and sociopolitical commentary of anti‐hegemonic Vine racial comedy in videos of Viner King Bach. The following analysis demonstrates that Vine racial comedy is heavily influenced by the generic features of African American stand‐up and sketch comedians and existing multimodal genres of online discourse, but King Bach's adaptation of these features to the unique affordances of the Vine platform situates Vine racial comedy beyond the boundaries of the genres it draws on. Analysis of this digitally mediated multimodal discourse demonstrates that, while not deterministic, the medium through which discourse is constructed can significantly impact how a discourse genre is conceptually understood by expanding the semiotic resources through which the sociopolitical and discursive goals that define a genre are accomplished.

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Section: Theoretical Contextmentioning

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Vine Racial Comedy as Anti‐Hegemonic Humor: Linguistic Performance and Generic Innovation

Calhoun

2019

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“…Derived from the situationist movement and its strategy of détournement (which means "turning around" or "turning upside down"), culture jamming is a symbolic form of protest that "targets central symbols of dominant discourses, deconstructs the discourse, and reintroduces the symbols in alternative contexts" (Wettergren 2003, 28). 3 Contemporary satire uses political culture jamming to add a subversive interpretation to the continuous stream of political images, exploiting leverage points-factual errors, logical contradictions, and incongruities-in both the dominant political discourse and the media that disseminate it (Warner 2007). Satire, then, also becomes a tool to enforce accountability by pointing out falsehoods, inconsistencies, and inconsequential news that has been blown out of proportion (Painter and Hodges 2010).…”

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Satiric Magazines as Hybrid Alternative Media in Latin America

Alonso¹

2019

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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This article explores the cases of two satirical publications—The Clinic (Chile, 1998–) and Barcelona (Argentina, 2003–). Through critical humor, visual subversions, and parody, these independent magazines challenged mainstream journalism and official political discourse, offering alternative interpretations about the ruling class and society after traumatic periods—Pinochet’s military dictatorship in Chile and the 2001 economic crisis in Argentina. Through interviews with the editors and content analysis, this article examines how these satirical publications responded to their respective national contexts by questioning the functioning of power on several levels of society, and how they evolved after they became popular, negotiating their space within the national mediascape. This study also suggests the notion of hybrid alternative media to describe these publications, which became part of a liberating process of collective healing. Initially perceived in opposition to mainstream media in contexts when the press’s credibility had decreased, they filled gaps in their society’s political communication.

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“…And Wang (2004) defined such program as a political parody, the actors perform in an exaggerated and comical mimicry style, with sounds, speeches, expressions and body movements; the simulation of real news scenes and various types of political codes may be used at the same time as props and background setting, in order to mock on politicians and different political issues in the shows. Warner (2007) further pointed out that although such imitation program seems like simply a copy of the mainstream news media by mimicking the aesthetics of the program setting, it has been strategically modified to accentuate those "factual errors, logical contradictions, and incongruities" that the campaign messages and the media usually annunciate.…”

Section: Political Satire Showmentioning

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The Use Motivation of Political Satire Show and the Impacts of Viewing Frequency on Voters’ Political Efficacy and Political Cynicism—Taking <i>Mr. Brown Show</i> as an Example

Hong¹,

Chang²

2019

AJC

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Political satire show, distinguished from other forms of political protests, specialize in gaining entertainment from politics. Its popularity leads to the academic researches of audience's viewing motivation. In Singapore, even though the government has strictly controlled the traditional media, a well known political satire show Mr. Brown Show has found its way to survive. As a Singaporean-made pod cast program, Mr. Brown Show satirizes Singapore's policy and current affairs via the Internet so that people can always download the program content. According to the research findings in the western culture, watching political satire shows could be information-motivated or entertainment-motivated. Based on the fact that no study had ever detected the motivation of people's viewing political satire shows in Singapore, this study tried to explore the motivation of viewing Mr. Brown Show and also to figure out the casual relationship between viewing frequency and citizen's political efficacy and political cynicism. The Nielsen Company (Singapore) Pte Ltd. was commissioned to conduct a formal online survey by using the Nielsen's online panel which consists of Singaporean adults spanning a wide range of demographic segments. Respondent quotas were set on key demographic variables (gender and age) to ensure that the sample represents Singapore Internet users. Finally, 503 samples were collected. The results show that the motivations of the viewing include search for identity/surveillance/discontent, entertainment value/social rituals and peer influence. In addition, viewing frequency can successfully predict people's political efficacy and political cynicism. Yet, people tend to have higher political cynicism than political efficacy after viewing the show. Moreover, internet use can also predict political

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Political Culture Jamming: The Dissident Humor of “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart”

Cited by 43 publications

References 9 publications

Vine Racial Comedy as Anti‐Hegemonic Humor: Linguistic Performance and Generic Innovation

Vine Racial Comedy as Anti‐Hegemonic Humor: Linguistic Performance and Generic Innovation

Satiric Magazines as Hybrid Alternative Media in Latin America

The Use Motivation of Political Satire Show and the Impacts of Viewing Frequency on Voters’ Political Efficacy and Political Cynicism—Taking <i>Mr. Brown Show</i> as an Example

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Political Culture Jamming: The Dissident Humor of “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart”

Cited by 43 publications

References 9 publications

Vine Racial Comedy as Anti‐Hegemonic Humor: Linguistic Performance and Generic Innovation

Vine Racial Comedy as Anti‐Hegemonic Humor: Linguistic Performance and Generic Innovation

Satiric Magazines as Hybrid Alternative Media in Latin America

The Use Motivation of Political Satire Show and the Impacts of Viewing Frequency on Voters’ Political Efficacy and Political Cynicism—Taking &lt;i&gt;Mr. Brown Show&lt;/i&gt; as an Example

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The Use Motivation of Political Satire Show and the Impacts of Viewing Frequency on Voters’ Political Efficacy and Political Cynicism—Taking <i>Mr. Brown Show</i> as an Example