The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age (eBook)

Perspectives from the Global South

Shepherd Mpofu (Herausgeber)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
XXI, 314 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-3-030-81969-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.


Shepherd Mpofu is Associate Professor in Media and Communications at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. He is an African Humanities Programme Fellow. He is co-editor of Mediating Xenophobia in Africa (Palgrave, 2020). He regularly publishes in academic journals on themes such as media and identity, media and protests, gender and race.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.11.2021
• Zusatzinfo: XXI, 314 p. 10 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: digital humour • Digital Media • humour and identity • Identity politics • Memes • Political satire • Trolling
• ISBN-10: 3-030-81969-8 / 3030819698
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-81969-9 / 9783030819699