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  Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

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  Sudeep Sharma UCLA

  August 22, 2012

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  overall media climate where the possibility of politics to produce meaningful, systemic change is a joke. ... limiting the possibility of politics, both The Daily Show and the media it ridicules contribute to ...
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  Voting for Super Bullshit on Super Tuesday

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  February 05, 2008

  button is still on. Here, though, and especially on a day such as today, I’m interested in how this clip ...
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  Burgundy Histories? WEWS-TV “Catch 5!” 1970s promo

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  Mark Williams Dartmouth College

  February 26, 2008

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  particular fosters an opening of reading possibilities, I want to encourage more possibilities than camp ... Burgundy histories?- that deploy camp to new advantage. Or might such projects conflict with a possible ...
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  Injuring Objectivity? The Multiple Kinds of Violence against Palestinian Photojournalists

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  Amahl Bishara Tufts University

  April 01, 2009

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  insinuated, posing a threat to Israel.  Is this a kind of speech act that makes possible violence against ... turned on his camera, and it not only recorded the shooting, making possible a distinct kind of advocacy, ...
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  Beyond the Bay: Transnational Seascapes in The Investigation

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  Rachel Fabian Purchase College SUNY

  November 08, 2021

  her laptop for possible clues about her disappearance. The decision to release Wall’s laptop to the ...
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  Can activists prank us to a better society?

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  Afsheen Nomai University of Texas at Austin

  October 24, 2007

  3 comments

  Can activists prank us to a better society? journalism culture jamming Yes Men media activism tactics prank Curator's Note Watching Yes Men member Andy Bichlbaum perform this interview, I am first struck by the sheer bravado of the prank. Here he is, ...