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Sorriso amaro: El humorismo en las letras hispanoamericanas entre los siglos XX y XXI
Buenos Aires: Teseo (2025), 271 pp.
"Con quince contribuciones de investigadores procedentes de universidades italianas e internacionales, este volumen construye una perspectiva de los estudios sobre el humor, las posibles variaciones tropológicas y las metodologías que se necesitan a la hora de acotar sus diferentes expresiones. Es
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The power of humour
D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue 4 (2025), pp. 28-54
"All over the world, satirists courageously stand up for democratic values, often under extremely difficult conditions. Through their art, they create spaces for freedom and challenge authorities. On the other hand, extremists use humour for their political purposes too: They ridicule those who diss
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Midiatização, humor e performances no discurso religioso
Ciências Sociais e Religião (Campinas), volume 26, issue e024008 (2024), 34 pp.
"O artigo traz resultados de pesquisa de doutoramento acerca da comicidade como estratégia discursiva nas religiosidades contemporâneas. No contexto de intensificação da presença do humor e do riso nas ambiências religiosas, compreendemos esse fenômeno como uma das consequências das sociedad
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Digital Satire in Latin America: Online Video Humor as Hybrid Alternative Media
Gainesville: University Press of Florida (2024), x, 193 pp.
"This book analyzes how digital-native audiovisual satire has become increasingly influential in national public debates within Latin America. Paul Alonso illuminates the role of online video in filling gaps in sociopolitical critique left by television, traditional journalism, and commercial entert
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Funny Enough: Incorporating Humor Into Health Messages to Promote Breast Self-Examination Behavior
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 4441-4467
"Using the extended parallel process model (PPM), this research examines whether and how humor functions to influence women’s breast self-examination (BSE) intention. We conducted a 2 (humor: present vs. absent) × 2 (threat: high vs. low) × 2 (efficacy: high vs. low) between-subjects experiment
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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Media and Communication in the Middle East and North Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiii, 590 pp.
"The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Media and Communication in the Middle East and North Africa stands as an authoritative and up-to-date resource on the critical debates, research methods and ongoing reflections on how gender and communication intersect with the economic, social, political, and cultu
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CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press (2023), xiii, 345 pp.
"By the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday vocabulary and our lives, religious communities and places of worship around the world were already undergoing profound changes. In Asian and Asian diaspora communities, diverse cultural tropes, beliefs, and artifacts were m
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Humour as a Strategic Tool Against Disinformation: Ukraine’s Response to Russia
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 35 pp.
"Ukraine has been building its capacity to use humour as a strategic communications tool since Russian first invasion in 2014. After Russia launched the full-scale war in February 2022, this often grassroots effort was multiplied by many new actors joining it. Foreign supporters of Ukraine stepped i
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Fighting Lies with Facts or Humor: Comparing the Effectiveness of Satirical and Regular Fact-Checks in Response to Misinformation and Disinformation
Communication Monographs, volume 90, issue 1 (2023), pp. 69-91
"This study tested the effectiveness of fact-check format (regular vs. satirical) to refute different types of false information. Specifically, we conducted a pre-registered online survey experiment (N = 849) that compared the effects of regular fact-checkers and satirist refutations in response to
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Konnektiver Zynismus: Politik und Kultur im digitalen Zeitalter
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 128 pp.
"Der politische Diskurs verroht, in den sozialen Medien toben Trolle und grenzüberschreitende Witze haben Hochkonjunktur. Rechtspopulist*innen und fragwürdige Influencer*innen nutzen bewusst sprachliche Unschärfen und ironische Zwischentöne, um das Gesagte im Nachhinein relativieren zu können.
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The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication
New York; London: Routledge (2022), xxv, 514 pp.
"Bringing together theoretical, methodological, and practical chapters, this book presents a unique opportunity for environmental communication scholars to critically reflect on the past, examine present trends, and start envisioning exciting new methodologies, theories and areas of research. Chapte
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Memes: Formen und Folgen eines Internetphänomens
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 258 pp.
"Memes dienen nicht nur der popkulturellen Unterhaltung oder der Kunst, sie werden auch in der Politik, in lokalen und internationalen Wahlkämpfen oder auf Demonstrationen verwendet. In ihrer typischsten Form sind sie Text-Bild-Gefüge, die sich digital mit viraler Geschwindigkeit verbreiten und tr
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Arruinando chistes: Panorama de los estudios del humor y lo cómico
Buenos Aires: Teseo (2021), 546 pp.
Satiric TV in the Americas: Critical Metatainment As Negotiated Dissent
Oxford: Oxford University Press USA (2018), ix, 176 pp.
"Satiric TV in the Americas analyzes some of the most representative and influential satiric TV shows on the continent (focusing on cases in Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Chile, and the United States) in order to understand their critical role in challenging the status quo, traditional journalis
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La propaganda racista contra los afrodescendientes en la televisión peruana. Estudio de un programa de humor
In: Cultura afroperuana: encuentro de investigadores 2017
Lima: Ministerio de Cultura (2018), pp. 133-140
"El personaje Negro Mama carga en su construcción elementos que lo convierten en estereotipo negativo. Se vale de un medio de comunicación para repetir cuestiones simples y básicas, ajenas a la realidad. Es la puesta en práctica de los prejuicios raciales, cuyo efecto en su audiencia es crear o
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Komik: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch
Stuttgart: Metzler (2017), x, 415 pp.
"Das Handbuch gibt einen Überblick über die vielfältigen Formen und Themen des Komischen, erläutert methodische Zugänge und bietet so eine Bestandsaufnahme der aktuellen Komikforschung. Dabei werden zunächst Grundbegriffe des Komischen dargestellt. Neben der Komikforschung der verschiedenen Di
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Cultural Revolution in Iran: Contemporary Popular Culture in the Islamic Republic
London; New York: Tauris, new paperback ed. (2017), xiv, 287 pp.
"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address dive
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Humour in Political Activism: Creative Nonviolent Resistance
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xi, 237 pp.
"This book analyses how humour in political activism contributes to facilitating outreach, mobilisation and the sustaining of cultures of resistance. Drawing on examples of attention-grabbing stunts from around the world, Humour in Political Activism demonstrates how they succeed in turning relation
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Political Parody and Satire as Subversive Speech in the Global Digital Sphere
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 3 (2015), pp. 211-311
