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Stand-Up Comedy, Authenticity, and Assertion

open access: yesThe Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2020
ABSTRACTStand-up comedy is often viewed in two contrary ways. In one view, comedians are hailed as providing genuine social insight and telling truths. In the other, comedians are seen as merely trying to entertain and not to be taken seriously. This tension raises a foundational question for the aesthetics of stand-up: Do stand-up comedians perform ...
JESSE RAPPAPORT, JAKE QUILTY-DUNN
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Tick‐Tock, the Time Has Come: Leveraging TikTok to Understand, Prevent, and Treat Eating Disorders

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective TikTok—a highly engaging social media platform with a powerful algorithm that displays short videos—has become massively popular in recent years. As research highlights the concerning relationship between image‐based content on social media and disordered eating symptoms, TikTok may serve as an optimal platform to understand eating ...
Macarena Kruger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Comparative Analysis of Stand-up Comedy in Contemporary China and A Collection of Classic Chinese Jokes

open access: yesLingual
Notwithstanding the fact that 幽默 youmo ‘humour’ is a neologism and transliteration coined in the 1920s, the conception has been existing in Chinese civilisation for millennia. The earliest extant treatise on humour in Chinese literature is regarded to be
Aiqing Wang
doaj   +1 more source

DAKWAH MELALUI STAND UP COMEDY

open access: yesAdZikra : Jurnal Komunikasi & Penyiaran Islam, 2019
Dakwah pada dasarnya adalah suatu kegiatan yang dilakukan oleh umat Islam untuk menyebarluaskan dan menyiarkan ajaran Islam. Seiring perkembangan zaman, dakwah melalui televisi sangatlah cepat  diterima. Hampir semua kalangan masyarakat saat ini mempunyai televisi dan memilih program yang mereka suka sebagai hiburan, wawasan maupun tambahan ilmu ...
Juanda, Juanda, Fahrurrozi, A M
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TikTok and Eating Disorders: A Narrative Review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective TikTok has rapidly become one of the world's most influential social media platforms, distinguished by its algorithmically personalized video feed. Its design prioritizes continuous, engagement‐optimized content delivery, raising questions about how such environments may shape eating disorder risk, symptom maintenance, and recovery ...
Scott Griffiths   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

[Review of] Sarah Blacher Cohen, ed. From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Jewish-American Stage and Screen [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
The considerable Jewish American presence on the stage and screen (and now television), has long been marveled at and discussed. Jewish dominance in mass media has been a source of pride to Jews and anguish to anti-semites.
Mayo, Louise
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”Not always the magic bullet”—Insufficient seizure control by ketogenic dietary therapies in Glut1 Deficiency Syndrome

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Ketogenic dietary therapies (KDTs) are the treatment of choice for Glut1 Deficiency Syndrome (Glut1DS), providing dietary ketones as an alternative fuel to the brain and effectively controlling seizures. Recent evidence indicates insufficient seizure control in Glut1DS patients despite adequate KDT and ketosis.
Joerg Klepper, Eva Runkel, Lucia Kiesel
wiley   +1 more source

Wonder as a Gateway to Science Meaning‐Making: Primary Pupils’ Narrative Journeys

open access: yesFuture in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how wonder fosters transformative learning in science education for pupils (11–12 years old), creating meaning about cycles in nature. As an emotional and epistemic trigger, wonder may bridge everyday experiences with abstract scientific concepts by stimulating curiosity and creativity. Through a narrative writing task, the
Pauline Book, Siri‐Christine Seehuus
wiley   +1 more source

The new meaning of retirement for bridge employees: Situating bridge employment through the lens of the Kaleidoscope Career Model

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 89-112, Spring 2025.
Abstract Retirees re‐entering the workforce, popularly termed as bridge employment, is a phenomenon that is anticipated to increase in the coming years. Though research establishes that these employees have unique aspirations and work motives (see Mazumdar et al., 2020), primary research on how the retirement transition and bridge employment shape each
Bishakha Mazumdar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A multimodal generic perspective on Nigerian stand-up comedy

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2018
Studies in stand-up comedy in Nigeria have recently begun to gain serious attention. Several articles that describe the psychological and socio-cultural contexts of joke texts of stand-up comedy in Nigeria have appeared within the last few years (Orhiunu
Felix Nwabeze Ogoanah   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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