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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. ... being jerks or unaware of the other side’s argument, seems to be difficult for Stewart, and The Daily ... 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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  The Other Side of Democracy in the Digital Age

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  Dave Parry University of Texas at Dallas

  February 09, 2009

  2 comments

  The Other Side of Democracy in the Digital Age journalism Youtube politics President democracy ... there is also a seedy side to politics in the networked age. Technology plus mobs does not necessarily ...