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Humour as Negotiation: Digital Cultures of Friendly Political Humour on the Chinese Internet
This thesis works on the digital cultures of friendly political humour on the Chinese internet, examining the potential of humour in bridging communication and negotiating the hegemonic relationship between the online public and the state. Previous research mostly emphasises the more extreme cases of digital humour in China, understanding them ...
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ABSTRACT As global conflicts intensify, observers without direct conflict experience are increasingly exposed to war‐related suffering through media coverage, yet little is known about how such exposure shapes emotional and behavioural responses or how support for different affected civilian groups is distributed.
Islam Borinca +3 more
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Conflict divides society by bringing out opposing opinions and social, political and cultural difference. Humour becomes a way to disseminate and comment on opinions as well as to mark divisions in the public sphere.
Liisi Laineste, Anastasiya Fiadotava
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On the Verge of Exclusion: The Unique Psychological Profile of the Threat of Social Exclusion
ABSTRACT Past research, often using Cyberball—an online ball‐tossing game with two or more preprogrammed players—showed that being socially excluded produces various negative emotions and lower need satisfaction. However, in everyday life, people may experience the threat of social exclusion more frequently than actual exclusion. Across two experiments
Tiara R. Widiastuti +3 more
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This special issue, at the intersection of Humour studies, Literary and Cultural Studies, focuses on the themes of food and taste. Several of the articles gathered here pay particular attention to the meanings of bad taste as a socio-political device ...
Anne-Sophie Bories, Nils Couturier
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ABSTRACT The current research focused on how competing narratives (i.e., dominant and resistance narratives) are endorsed among low‐status group members, through the case of the US military base issue in Okinawa, Japan. Specifically, we explored patterns of Okinawans’ narrative endorsement (i.e., dominant and resistance narratives surrounding the ...
Maho Aikawa, Andrew L. Stewart
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ABSTRACT The atrocities committed during the Nazi era still affect Germany's image in the world and Germans' feelings about their country's past. Herein, we investigate how historical propaganda images glorifying Adolf Hitler influence these feelings. Prior scholars have raised concerns that such materials might communicate distorted images of the past
Lara Ditrich +3 more
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That Donald J. Trump won the US Presidential Election of 2016 defied the expectations of almost all seasoned observers of the US political system. Scholarly explanations stress structural factors that produced a substantial cohort of identity-vulnerable
Sammy Basu
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ABSTRACT Policy process research has excelled in explaining structural policy change within national settings, but extensions and applications to the EU level have long proven challenging for scholars. Given that the EU is currently experiencing its longest period of Treaty stability since the 1980s—having evolved into a sui generis political system ...
Vassilis Karokis‐Mavrikos
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In recent years, humour has re-entered the public sphere as a serious and potentially explosive topic of debate, giving rise to social conflicts and controversies.
Dick Zijp
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