The Bibi Sitter and the Hipster: the new comical political discourse

Mann, Rafi

doi:10.1080/13537121.2016.1174379

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“…Clearly, researchers give their attention to purely humorous works: comedy shows, sitcoms, radio comedy, cartoons, anecdotes in periodicals, which examples of how media is used for the functions of leisure or relaxation. Authors analyse humorous media content whether or not the joke, particularly when connected to some public phenomenon, is ethical or not (Lim & Moufahim 2015;Collings 2018), thus investigating the peculiarities of the satirical comprehension of key political, social and ecological problems (Hutchings 2007;Chattoo & Green-Barber 2018;Mann 2016). This also applies to animation (Crawford 2009;Henry 2012) and studies of the features of a humourist's individual style (Havig 2010).…”

Section: The Study Of Humour In Relation To News: the Scientific Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Acquaintance with the works devoted to humour in news allows us to conditionally distinguish two initial research positions in this scientific discourse, which we will call presumptions: the presumption of news and the presumption of humour. In other words, some research is conducted for the sake of innovation with regards to news genres (Baum 2003;Panchenko 2017b;Brodie 2018;Shilikhina 2019) and others for the sake of understanding humour as a phenomenon as well as for identifying the means of its implementation (Becker 2014;Yue et al 2016;Mann 2016).…”

Section: The Study Of Humour In Relation To News: the Scientific Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Extremely widespread use of the comic in modern mass media is noted by many researchers (Baum 2003;Hunt 2013;Alonso 2016;Mann 2016;Chattoo & Green-Barber 2018;Collins 2018). Comic meanings in the media are born from the communicative needs peculiar to a particular type of professional socio-cultural activity and realize the goals and objectives of such activities.…”

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Humour as a strategy for news delivery: the case of Meduza

Vasileva¹,

Ivanova²

2021

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In this article, humour is viewed as a strategic resource for informing in media discourse. It is analyzed through the case of “Evening Meduza”, a Russian-language nightly newsletter, received via email or Telegram messenger. A media linguistics analysis of polycode hypermedia text is used to identify communicative linguistic means, contributing to a comic reinterpretation of news on the paratextual, intratextual and visual-illustrative level. News messages in the newsletter are created in the format of compressed “packagings” (a term borrowed from Chafe) with embedded links, following which an addressee goes to the page with source text or concomitant informational resources. Humour is analyzed in packagings as well as in whole text and paratext blocks. Humorous means are revealed in three vectors of analysis: empathy in packaging texts, paratextual focus interaction, and news visualization. The change of narrative perspectives in text packages allows the authors to shift the focus of contrast within a newspiece and create humorous content while showing empathy to readers with different presuppositional expectations. The author’s signature always includes a prepositive ironic addition (attribution) that highlights one of the issue’s news elements and forces the audience to reread the newsletter in order to understand the semantic relation. Subheadings create a comic contrast, focusing on individual parts of the reference content while preparing the reader to perceive the news of the day interconnectedly. A mandatory humorous component in the block “And – picture” was found to show the news event in a visual semiotic code using a demotivator style that expresses a pun.

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Section: The Study Of Humour In Relation To News: the Scientific Contextmentioning

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Section: The Study Of Humour In Relation To News: the Scientific Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Humour as a strategy for news delivery: the case of Meduza

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2021

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The types and functions of humor in the work of a United States Senator

Garcia

2021

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This study investigates the role interactional competence plays in the performance of political roles by examining the use of humor in events such as speeches, election campaign rallies, press briefings and televised news interviews. In this case study of a prominent United States Senator (the late Senator Edward Kennedy), twenty publically available video recordings from the C-SPAN online archives are analyzed using a conversation analytic approach. Two main types of humor were found in these data, self-deprecatory humor and humor that criticizes others. Three main functions of humor were identified (subtle self-promotion, managing challenging political and interactional situations, and creating solidarity with an audience). The results of this study contribute to our understanding of how humor can play a role in doing the work of a Senator.

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Is Israeli Millennials’ Web Comedy Less Politically Engaged? How Social Media Might Hamper Satire

Rosen

2024

10.14746/i

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This paper claims that Israeli web content creators are less politically engaged and overtly critical in comparison to local filmmakers who have been creating for cinema and television. Their comedy leans towards lighthearted nonsense and avoids taking a stand on controversial topics. It is argued that this can be explained by both universal and uniquely local reasons. In general, web creators are not judged by the same standards of artistic quality that is attributed to films and TV shows. Therefore, they choose different topics and aesthetics, which might appear less “substantial” or “artistic” by traditional perceptions. Also, Millennials are often considered by critics to be less rebellious and more self-centered. In addition, Israeli society has become more right-wing, nationalist, and religious. Contemporary culture therefore favors crowd-pleasing optimism over critique or complaints that ‘spoil the party’. Furthermore, artists’ self-censorship is affected by a growing lack of tolerance, which is sometimes expressed through social media outrage, and might cause severe damage to their careers. Based on these explanations, this paper then analyzes three independent web comedies which touch upon the debatable topic of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, and the national-religious community, yet do it with varying degrees of criticism.

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The Bibi Sitter and the Hipster: the new comical political discourse

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Humour as a strategy for news delivery: the case of Meduza

Humour as a strategy for news delivery: the case of Meduza

The types and functions of humor in the work of a United States Senator

Is Israeli Millennials’ Web Comedy Less Politically Engaged? How Social Media Might Hamper Satire

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