The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Audience Attitude Change During the 2004 Party Conventions

Morris, Jonathan S.

doi:10.1007/s11109-008-9064-y

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“…Her findings, however, show that heavy comedy viewers evaluated the candidates more negatively, irrespective of their prior partisan leanings. Related work has also suggested that the impact of exposure to The Daily Show on candidate evaluations depends more on comedy exposure than prior partisan predispositions (Baumgartner & Morris, ; Morris, ).…”

Section: Disposition Theory Of Humor and Humor Appreciationmentioning

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Humiliate My Enemies or Mock My Friends? Applying Disposition Theory of Humor to the Study of Political Parody Appreciation and Attitudes Toward Candidates

Becker

2014

Hum Commun Res

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The research examines politically entertaining media through a mass communication lens, applying the disposition theory of humor toward the study of political parody appreciation and the effects of exposure to varied humor types on political attitudes. The analyses rely on experimental data (N = 269) collected in 2013. The results of the first analysis suggest that the interaction of disposition and exposure to different types of humor significantly influences variation in political parody appreciation. The findings from the second analysis show that negative affect toward the opposing candidate, or the presumed victor of a humorous situation, can dampen attitudes toward the victim given exposure to critical humor. The strategic implications for campaigns looking to engage with humor are discussed.

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Section: Disposition Theory Of Humor and Humor Appreciationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Humiliate My Enemies or Mock My Friends? Applying Disposition Theory of Humor to the Study of Political Parody Appreciation and Attitudes Toward Candidates

Becker

2014

Hum Commun Res

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“…Understanding how comedy conforms to a particular set of political prejudices or allows for their contest, is an important and growing field in the politics of comedy. Audience reception studies that capture insights on how politicians are viewed, how issues are debated (or not) through satirical interventions, and whether politicians are actively courting satirists through appearances on Have I Got News For You and the Daily Show represent an important extension of the mainstream approach (Higgie, 2017; See also Morris, 2009). iv However, while sympathetic to such trends, we will explore a more performative approach to satire that is nevertheless critical of the potential for instrumentalism in the mainstream view.…”

Section: Satire As Critiquementioning

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British satire, everyday politics: Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci and Charlie Brooker

Brassett

Sutton

2017

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article develops a critical engagement with the politics of British satire. After first engaging the mainstream critique of satire—that it promotes cynicism and apathy by portraying politicians in stereotypically corrupt terms—we develop a performative approach to comedy as an everyday vernacular of political life. Beyond a focus on ‘impact’, we suggest that satire can be read as an everyday form of political reflection that performs within a social context. This argument yields an image of Morris, Iannucci and Brooker as important critics of contemporary British politics, a point which we explore through their interventions on media form, political tragedy and political agency.

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“…First, the performances of both comedians and opinionated news journalists are grounded in personal opinions. Their convictions guide the interpretation of topics presented in both opinionated news and political satire (Baym, 2005;Baym, 2013), which violates the journalistic norm of impartiality (see, e.g., Morris, 2009). Satirists, such as Jon Stewart, thus also perform a "representational role as a voice of a community" (Gray, Jones, & Thompson, 2009, p.16).…”

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News With an Attitude: Assessing the Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Opinionated News

Boukes

Boomgaarden

Moorman

et al. 2014

Mass Communication and Society

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News with an attitude: assessing the mechanisms underlying the effects of opinionated news Boukes, M.; Boomgaarden, H.; Moorman, M.; de Vreese, C.H. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. AbstractOpinionated news targets communities of likeminded viewers, relies on dramaturgical storytelling techniques, and shares characteristics with political satire. Accordingly, opinionated news should be understood as a specific form of political entertainment. We have investigated the mechanisms underlying the effects of opinionated news on political attitudes using an experimental design that employed manipulated television news items. Findings confirm that opinionated news positively affects policy attitudes via its presumed influence on others and subsequent perceptions of the opinion climate. However, opinionated news also negatively affects attitudes via hostile media perceptions and evoked anger, especially for people with incongruent political preferences. Due to these opposing processes, we found no total effect of opinionated news on policy attitudes. Conditions are discussed under which either the positive or the negative indirect effect is likely to dominate.

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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Audience Attitude Change During the 2004 Party Conventions

Abstract: The intention of this analysis is to examine The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Cited by 67 publications

References 30 publications

Humiliate My Enemies or Mock My Friends? Applying Disposition Theory of Humor to the Study of Political Parody Appreciation and Attitudes Toward Candidates

Humiliate My Enemies or Mock My Friends? Applying Disposition Theory of Humor to the Study of Political Parody Appreciation and Attitudes Toward Candidates

British satire, everyday politics: Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci and Charlie Brooker

News With an Attitude: Assessing the Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Opinionated News

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