Satire—the coupling of criticism and humor—has been a popular means to add a seemingly lighthearted touch to somewhat sensitive topics. For example, Saturday Night Live parodied quarterback Tom Brady ...
In our digital times as we are inundated with YouTube videos, memes and social media, satire is everywhere, but it can be more damaging to people's reputations than direct criticism, according to new ...
Robert Phiddian receives funding from the Australian Research Council for a study of Australian Political Cartooning. There has been much discussion in recent years about satire’s role in the online ...
A new study suggests satire and memes may shape negative public perception more than direct criticism. https://p.dw.com/p/4qTBr Taylor Swift was booed when her image ...
I already knew that I was going to miss the Colbert Report, and its wry, satirical take on politics and culture. Now, a fascinating new book that traces the use of satire as a form of political ...
Since Snopes' start in the mid-1990s, our fact-checkers have alerted readers to numerous pieces of satire. That's many decades of "jokes" targeting politicians and celebrities, or putting twists on ...
On 13 March 2012, the Free Wood Post website published an article ("Fox News Classified Satire by FCC") positing that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had reclassified Fox News "from a ...
“The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.” For over a decade, cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists have been testing this 17th-century aphorism from Molière (France’s Shakespeare) ...
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