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The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age

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    Chapter 1 Ridicule and Humour in the Global South: Theorizing Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age
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    Chapter 2 The Aesthetics of ‘Laughing at Power’ in an African Cybersphere
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    Chapter 3 Political Satire and the Mediation of the Zimbabwean Crisis in the Era of the “New Dispensation”: The Case of MAGAMBA TV
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    Chapter 4 Zapiro’s Satirical Reconstruction of Marikana Victims and Representation of Mourning
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    Chapter 5 Humour, Politics and Mnangagwa’s Presidency: An Analysis of Readers’ Comments in Online News Websites
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    Chapter 6 This Is a Laughing Matter: Social Media as a Sphere of Trolling Power in Malawi and Zimbabwe
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    Chapter 7 Laughing at Trouble: A Multimodal Analysis of Online Economic Satire in Zimbabwe
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    Chapter 8 ‘Humour and the Politics of Resistance’: Audience Readings of Popular Amateur Videos in Zimbabwe
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    Chapter 9 The Prank of Celebrity Activism through Postcolonial Nigeria
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    Chapter 10 Comedy, Horror, and Graphic Violence: Brazilian Allegories of the Culture Wars
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    Chapter 11 ‘If Ever I Offended You I Am Sorry’: Disparagement Humour, Black Twitectives and the Dream Deferred
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    Chapter 12 The Curious Case of “Coconut Kelz”: Satire as a Critique of Race-Thinking in South Africa
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    Chapter 13 Gender Performance and Irony in Online Presentification: A Study of the Case “Katylene” in Brazil
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    Chapter 14 ‘Those Boys Are Representing Mashonaland’: Digital Football Fandom, Ethnicity and National Identity Politics in Zimbabwe
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    Chapter 15 Humour, Identity and Ethnicity in the Zimbabwean Political Landscape
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Title
The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2021
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-81969-9
ISBNs
978-3-03-081968-2, 978-3-03-081969-9
Editors

Shepherd Mpofu

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Country Count As %
Unknown 7 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 14%
Lecturer 1 14%
Unknown 5 71%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 2 29%
Unknown 5 71%