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UNINA9910795462203321 |
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Rutter Giappone Krista Bonello |
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Comedy and critical thought : laughter as resistance / / Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Fred Francis and Iain MacKenzie |
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London, England ; ; New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , 2018 |
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©2018 |
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1 online resource (246 pages) |
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Introduction : setting the agenda / Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Fred Francis, Iain MacKenzie -- Diagrams of comic estrangement / James Williams -- "Against the assault of laughter" : differentiating critical and resistant humour / Nick Holm -- Can we learn the truth from Lenny Bruce? A careful cognitivism about satire / Dieter Declercq -- Laughter, liturgy, Lacan and resistance to capitalist logic / Francis Stewart -- Humitas : humour as performative resistance / Kate Fox -- Conformist comedians : political humour in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic / Ivo Nieuwenhuis -- First World War cartoon comedy as criticism of British politics and society / Pip Gregory -- A suspended pratfall : mimesis and slapstick in contemporary art / Levi Hanes -- "Life" in struggle : the indifferent humour of Beckett's prose heroes / Selvin Yaltir -- "Holiday in Cambodia" : punk's acerbic comedy / Russ Bestley -- 'What can't be cured must be endured" : the postcolonial humour of Salman Rushdie, Sami Shah, and Hari Kondabolu / Christine Caruana -- Political jester : from fool to king / Constantino Pereira Martins -- Three easy steps to a new you? or, some thoughts on the politics of humour in the workplace / Adrian Hickey, Giuliana Monteverde, and Robert Porter. |
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"First volume to reflect on both the comedy within critical theory and the role of comedians as practitioners of critique" -- |
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UNINA9910731410003321 |
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DataPublics : The Construction of Publics in Datafied Democracies / / ed. by David Mathieu, Jannick Kirk Sørensen, Jannie Møller Hartley |
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Bristol : , : Bristol University Press, , [2023] |
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©2023 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (216 p.) : 8 Black and White |
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Mass media - Political aspects |
Mass media - Public opinion |
Mass media - Social aspects |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Datapublics Beyond the Rise and Fall Narrative -- Agentic Publics -- Deconstructing the Notion of Algorithmic Control over Datapublics -- Counterpublicness and Hybrid Tactics across Physical and Mediated Spaces -- Stratified Public Formation in Mundane Settings -- Cultivated Publics -- Imagining Publics through Emerging Technologies -- Personalization Logics and Publics by Design -- Infrastructured Publics -- Classifying the News: Metadata as Structures of Visibility and Compliance with Tech Standards -- Infrastructuring Publics: Datafied Infrastructures of the News Media -- Conclusion: Datapublics as a Site of Struggles -- Index |
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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book addresses new challenges to the formation of publics in datafied democracies. It proposes a fresh, complex and nuanced approach to understand 'datapublics', by considering datafication and public formation in the context of audience, journalism and infrastructure studies. The tightly woven chapters shed new light on how platforms, algorithms and their data infrastructure are embedded in journalistic |
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values, discourses and practices, opening up new conditions for publics to display agency, mobilise and achieve legitimacy. This is a seminal contribution to the debates about the future of media, journalism and civic practices. |
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