| 书目名称 | The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age | | 副标题 | Perspectives from th | | 编辑 | Shepherd Mpofu | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Explores social media and humour to better understand how ordinary people make sense of their lived conditions.Constitutes one of the first volumes to look at the politics of laughter on social media | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age: Perspectives from the Global South .brings to critical and intellectual attention the role of humour in the digital era in the Global South. Many citizens of the Global South live disempowered and precarious lives. Digital media and humour, as chapters in the volume demonstrate, have empowered these citizens through engagement with power and their peers, enabling a pursuit of a better future. Contributors to the volume, while alive to challenges associated with the digital divide, highlight the potentials of social media and humour to engage and seek redress on issues such as corruption, human rights violations, racism and sexism. Contributors expertly analyse memes, videos, cartoons and other social media texts to demonstrate how citizens mimic, disrupt, ridicule and challenge status quo. This book caters for academics and students in media and communication studies, political studies, sociology and Global South studies.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | | 关键词 | digital media; digital humour; humour and identity; identity politics; trolling; memes; political satire | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81969-9 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-81971-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-81969-9 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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