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Political Humour in the Blogosphere

open access: yesTextus, 2008
A multimodal phenomenon combining multiple sign systems, net-mediated humour is structurally different from offline humour, as it takes place within the semiotic coordinates of a digital environment. No wonder, then, that an increasingly popular web genre such as the political blog should have been quick to exploit these new humorous text types and ...
M.C. Paganoni
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Humour and Politics in Africa:

2023
Humour and Politics in Africa provides an innovative analysis of the diversity and complexity of humour – and its political significance – across Africa. This political significance, the book argues, goes beyond the framing of humour-as-resistance. As the book explores, humour is used for – and does – a vast array of political work that may be viewed ...
Daniel Hammett   +2 more
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Humour in Political Activism

open access: yes, 2016
Annotation This book analyses how humour in political activism contributes to facilitating outreach, mobilisation and the sustaining of cultures of resistance.
Sørensen, Majken Jul,
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Humour and Politics: A Discursive Approach to Humour

2021
Power has always been a desirable target for humour. It seems politicians are easy to make fun of. In fact, humour and politics are interrelated from times immemorial and they are a favoured field of research in the Human and Social Sciences. The aim of this study is to show the potential of a discursive-enunciative category, the point of view (POV ...
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Humour and Politics in Africa: An Overview

2023
This chapter provides a comprehensive background of the both the history of and contemporary literature on humour and politics in Africa. Africa has rich humorous traditions that are frequently overlooked but which underpin many contemporary forms of humour.
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Chapter 1. Humour in politics and the politics of humour

2011
In this chapter, the authors offer a working definition of political humour and summarise its main aspects as discussed in the relevant literature: the genres where political humour surfaces or dominates; the reasons why political criticism is so often encoded in humorous terms; and the (side-)effects of political humour.
Villy Tsakona, Diana Elena Popa
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Studies in Political Humour

2011
If politics is a serious matter and humour a funny one, this volume investigates how and why the boundaries between the two are blurred: politics can be represented in a humorous manner and humour can have a serious intent. Political humour conveys criticism against the political status quo and/or recycles and reinforces dominant views on politics. The
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