While sociologists of science and technology have long understood technological diffusion
and adoption as processes of social embedding, the psycho-social processes involved have …

With their increasing global dissemination, visuals have assumed an important role in
international political communication. The crisis sparked by Muhammad cartoons that swept …

Political satire is an elusive hybrid genre that through its evolution over the past two decades
has gained both media and scholarly interest. Inspired by American TV shows like Last …

News satire has proliferated worldwide and has emerged as a valid site for public discourse.
What we see today is a spectrum of news satire formats ranging from the predominantly …

This chapter explores political co-option in contemporary satire, a process whereby
politicians successfully co-opt satire for their own purposes in a way that neutralises the …

Satire's critical bite exposes it more often than other forms of humor to various kinds of
restraint or control. While most studies of satire focus on its formal censorship (by editorial …

The present study is a qualitative study that aims to investigate the way the Iraqi caricaturist,
Dheaa Al-Hajjar uses caricatures to produce a satirical meaning humorously. Producing …

e series aims to publish high-quality research on a broad range of topics in humor studies,
including irony and laughter. Topics include, but are not limited to, pragmatics, the sociology …

Radical left culture and heritage—understood as incarnations of leftist artefacts and praxis
both past and present—have taken risks in challenging hegemonic machinations often …

Over the past five years, communication and media scholars have explored the role political
satire has played in the realm of journalism. Such widespread scholarly attention is …