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Goffman’s methodological critique of social power, a sociology of humor helps reveal part of what that critique might be. The Critical Capacity of Humor: Humor as Reality Play
Aug 22, 2023 · The book reveals how and why comedy fuels social change in the participatory media age, how post-millennial social justice organizations collaborate with comedians and the evolving entertainment industry, and why creativity and cultural power matter for social justice.
Dec 5, 2017 · Over the summer, Professor Caty Borum Chattoo and American University’s Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI) launched “The Laughter Effect,” a creative and research initiative that features a series of investigations about how comedy can play a role in social change.
Meier and Schmitt’s edited volume, Standing Up, Speaking Out: Stand-Up Comedy and the Rhetoric of Social Change, articulates the power of comedy as a form of expression for traditionally marginalized racial and ethnic groups (Meier and Schmitt 2017).
Feb 15, 2023 · The belief in the transformative power of the comic is especially apparent in relation to that loose category of humour usually referred to as ‘satire’: a term that once named a particular technical genre, but which in its current usage tends to inform a more general claim about comic texts.
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This chapter provides a sociological theory of the stand-up comedian. It seeks to establish a theory of humour which arises in modern societies and the sociality that drives such humour.
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Aug 17, 2019 · Acaster’s power comes from his impotence; his power is power acquired at a distance. Acaster’s comedic power confuses the presentation of self (stand-up as powerful) with the representation of self (the power of collective labels).
