Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age

Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age

Perspectives from the Global South

Mpofu, Shepherd

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

11/2022

314

Mole

Inglês

9783030819712

15 a 20 dias

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Humour, Ridicule and Politics.- Chapter 2: the Aesthetics of 'laughing at Power' in an African Cyber Sphere.- Chapter 3: This Is a Laughing Matter: Social Media as a Sphere of Trolling Power in Malawi and Zimbabwe.- Chapter 4: Memes, Politics and Social Criticism in the Global South: Culture of Political Satire in Contemporary Kerala, India.- Chapter 5: Speaking "truth" to Power? Political Satire and the Mediation of the Zimbabwean Crisis in the "new Dispensation Era".- Chapter 6: Humour, Politics and Mnangagwa's Presidency: a Reception Study of Civic Intellectuals.- Chapter 7. Visualising Politicians Through the Prism of Political Memes.- Chapter 8: Inside-out: Politicians Disparaging Electorates and Democracy With Humour -the Case of Senator Dino Melaye in Nigeria.- Part 2: Humour and the Everyday.- Chapter 9: Laughing at Trouble: an Exploration of Online Economic Satire in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 10: the Curious Case of "coconut Kelz": a Rhetorical Analysis of a South African Satirist's Use of Humour to Engage in Persuasive Commentary on Social Issues.- Chapter 11: 'humor and the Politics of the Everyday': Reading Amateur Online Videos in Zimbabwe as a Subaltern Counter-public.- Chapter 12: Pastoral and Presidential Parody in the Digital Space: an Analysis of Naijas Craziest.- Chapter 13: Humour as Core Brand Element in Digital Public Speaking Assessment in South Africa.- Part 3: Humour, Ridicule and Identity.- Chapter 14: 'if Ever I Offended You I Am Sorry': Body Shaming and Embodied Racist Humour and Black Twitter in South Africa.- Chapter 15: Gender Performances and Irony in the Online Presentification Narrative: a Study of the "Katylene" Case in Brazil.- Chapter 16: Digital Football Fandom, Ethnicity and the Fragile Zimbabwe National Identity.- Chapter 17: Mental Models and the Myth of Multiculturalism and Postracialism in Zapiro and Yalo's Cartoons on Social Media.- Chapter 18: Humour, Identity and Ethnicity in the Zimbabwean Political Landscape.- Chapter 19: Laughter in Turbulent Times: Comedy and Religion in the Rise of Brazil's Far Right
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digital media;digital humour;humour and identity;identity politics;trolling;memes;political satire