Humour and conflict in the digital age
Andrew Benjamin Bricker,Alberto Godioli
Abstract This special issue examines how humour and conflict intersect in the digitally networked public sphere. Building on work that has grown out of various
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False affectivity and the manufacture of outrage: rethinking cartoon controversies
Dennis Meyhoff Brink
Abstract This article challenges the prevailing assumption that the offence and outrage expressed during contemporary cartoon controversies are spontaneous reactions to satirical attacks. Instead, it
Humorous political rhetoric in the US: analysing Trump’s and Ocasio-Cortez’s use of humour
Beer Prakken
Abstract Over the last decade, humour has undergone a metamorphosis, becoming a rhetorical weapon for—what appears to be—primarily right-wing populist politicians (Beck and Spencer, 2024;
Racist humour in Mexico’s media: denouncers’ inadvertent bolstering of bigotry
Raúl Acosta
Abstract In 2020, an unprecedented public discussion sought to denounce racist humour in Mexican mainstream and social media, especially targeting Indigenous people. Against the organisers’
Laughing right: Jordanian political humour and right-wing ideologies in social media spaces
Yousef Barahmeh
Abstract This article examines how Jordanian political humour has been strategically employed in social media spaces since the 2011 Arab uprisings. It explores how right-wing
Combatting conspiracy theories (also via humour): a case study of an Estonian conspiracy debunking group on Facebook
Anastasiya Astapova,Maili Pilt
Abstract This article focuses on popular understandings of how to combat conspiracy theories. Our case study is an Estonian-language Facebook group, “Victory of Light! Continuation”,
On power and prejudice: Islam in French stand-up comedy
Jeanne Gaillard
Abstract What is a Muslim joke? While Jewish humour is a common topic for Western researchers (Davies, 1991), Muslim humour is underexplored in the Western
The Belarus-Poland migrant crisis: views from both sides of the wall
Anastasiya Fiadotava,Władysław Chłopicki
Abstract The migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian and Lithuanian-Belarusian borders has resulted in border crossing restrictions and the construction of walls separating Poland and Lithuania
Laughing on the edge: interpreting dark humour in court
Alberto Godioli
Abstract Dark humour, i.e. humour engaging with sinister or distressing topics, is often at the centre of complex legal cases regarding freedom of expression and
The harmful side of humour: the case of humourist Anónimo García against the Spanish judicial system (and against common sense, too)
Carmelo Moreno
Abstract Humour studies have paid some attention to the risky nature of the professional activity of satirists in non-democratic societies, where legal censorship and political
The degenerative aesthetics of the dankest meme lords: far-right satire in the twenty-first century
Andrew Benjamin Bricker
Abstract Drawing on historical and theoretical accounts that treat satire as a mobile mode rather than a fixed genre, I argue that satire’s political orientation
Book review: Bhargava, Rashi and Richa Chilana (Eds.) (2023). Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy: Speaking Truth to Power. Taylor and Francis.
Holly Kasselder
Abstract Book review References Bourdillon, R. (2024, March 21). Hannah Gadsby: “My whole life, I’ve been thinking about my gender.” DIVA. https://diva-magazine.com/2024/03/21/hannah-gadsby-my-whole-life-ive-been-thinking-about-my-gender/ Double, O. (2014).
Book review: Priego-Valverde, Béatrice (Ed.) (2024). Interactional Humor: Multimodal Design and Negotiation. De Gruyter Mouton.
Stephen Skalicky
Abstract Book review
Book review: Balkin, Sarah and Marc Mierowsky (2024). Comedy and Controversy: Scripting Public Speech. Cambridge University Press.
Hande Malgaç
Abstract Book review References Heim, C. (2016). Audience as performer: The changing role of theatre audiences in the twenty-first century. Routledge. Krefting, R. (2014). All
