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A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar

Comedy is a powerful contemporary source of influence and information. In the still-evolving digital era, the opportunity to consume and share comedy has never been as available. And yet, despite its vast cultural imprint, comedy is a little-understood vehicle for serious public engagement in urgent social justice issues – even though humor offers frames of hope and optimism that can encourage participation in social problems. Moreover, in the midst of a merger of entertainment and news in the contemporary information ecology, and a decline in perceptions of trust in government and traditional media institutions, comedy may be a unique force for change in pressing social justice challenges...

The Revolution Will Be Hilarious
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

The Revolution Will Be Hilarious

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-02-28
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

"The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power reveals how and why comedy fuels contemporary social change, how post-millennial activists collaborate with comedians and the evolving entertainment industry, and why creativity and cultural power matter for social justice. Through research and an insider journey into transforming entertainment industry and activism practices, the book explains why deviant creativity expressed through comedy builds civic power-and can help change the world"--

Lead for the Planet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Lead for the Planet

This book guides concerned citizens and business leaders to take on the climate crisis, detailing five key practices for effective sustainability leadership.

Talk Show Campaigns
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Talk Show Campaigns

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-02-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Over the past twenty years, presidential candidates have developed an entertainment talk show strategy in which they routinely chat with the likes of Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman, and Jon Stewart. In fact, between 1992 and 2012, there have been more than 200 candidate interviews on daytime and late night talk shows with nearly every presidential candidate—from long shot primary contender to major party nominee—hitting the talk show circuit at some point during the campaign. This book explores the development of the entertainment talk show strategy and assesses its impact on presidential campaigns. The chapters mix detailed narrative with extensive empirical data on audiences, content, ...

First Lady of Laughs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 183

First Lady of Laughs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-09-17
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Before Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it all First Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we now call stand-up comedy. Though rarely mentioned among the pantheon of early stand-up comics such as Henny Youngman and Lenny Bruce, Jean Carroll rivaled or even outshone the male counterparts of her heyday, playing more major theaters than any other comedian of her period. In addition to releasing a hit comedy album, Girl in a Hot Steam Bath, and briefly starring in her own sitcom on ABC, she also made twenty-nine appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. Carroll made enduring changes to the genre of...

Reporting War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Reporting War

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-06-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Reporting War explores the social responsibilities of the journalist during times of military conflict. News media treatments of international crises, especially the one underway in Iraq, are increasingly becoming the subject of public controversy, and discussion is urgently needed. Each of this book's contributors challenges familiar assumptions about war reporting from a distinctive perspective. An array of pressing issues associated with conflicts over recent years are identified and critiqued, always with an eye to what they can tell us about improving journalism today. Special attention is devoted to recent changes in journalistic forms and practices, and the ways in which they are shap...

The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 977

The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication

The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication provides contexts for viewing the field, examines political discourse, media, and interpersonal and small group political communication, and considers political communication's evolution inside the altered political communication landscape. Agendas for future research and innovation are presented.

World Report 2000
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 550

World Report 2000

Human rights watch world report 2001: events of 2000.

Young People and the Future of News
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Young People and the Future of News

This book examines youth media practices on social media, introducing the concept of connective journalism as a precursor to collective political action.

Political Rhetoric, Social Media, and American Presidential Campaigns
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

Political Rhetoric, Social Media, and American Presidential Campaigns

Political Rhetoric, Social Media, and American Presidential Campaigns explores how social media influenced presidential campaign rhetoric. The author discusses media use in American presidential campaigns as well as social media campaigns for Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump. This book addresses how presidential candidates adapted their rhetorical performances for newspapers, radios, television, and the Internet. Scholars of rhetoric and political communication will find this book particularly useful.