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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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  “I’m so angry that I made a sign”: Selfhood and Media Reflexivity in Occupy Protest Signs

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  Lyndsey Beutin University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication

  May 03, 2012

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  “I’m so angry that I made a sign”: Selfhood and Media Reflexivity in Occupy Protest Signs protest ...
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  Dressing for (Dis)Occupation: On Subject Positioning and the 'Occupy' Movement

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  Elspeth Van Veeren University of Sussex

  December 07, 2011

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  Dressing for (Dis)Occupation: On Subject Positioning and the 'Occupy' Movement Occupy dress discourse assessing the occupy movement Curator's Note  What you wear is political. Whether consciously or unconsciously, through choice or not, dre ...