Essays about: "Social Satire"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 19 essays containing the words Social Satire.
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6. The Happy Prince : A Paradoxical Aesthetic Tale and a Dual Critique of Victorian Times
University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Fakulteten för lärarutbildningAbstract : This essay highlights The Happy Prince’s advantageous use of conventions of the fairy tale genre to stress critical issues of the Victorian period: the challenge of the established Christian socio-moral order, the rising of the bourgeois industrial society, and the advent of aestheticism as a response. Using the close reading technique supported by the Victorian socio-historical background, the analysis establishes that the criticism proceeds by double associations. READ MORE
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7. Beyond the "lulz" : audience engagement with political memes in the case of Indonesia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapAbstract : This thesis explores the roles of Internet memes as a form of contemporary political discourse in Indonesia from the individual perspective of audience members. In-depth qualitative interviews with fourteen Indonesian young adults were conducted to understand the ways in which they engage and create meaning of political memes, allowing for a closer examination on the media’s potential for contribution to civic cultures. READ MORE
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8. Cartoon representations of the migrant crisis in Greek new media
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : The increasing and irregular flow of migrants in Europe had lead to an unprecedented crisis which European and International stakeholders have been struggling to manage in a challenging context of financial insecurity, political instability, fragile foreign relations and controversial steps and policies. This current context questions Europe’s image as a powerful global key-player and a civilized privileged space/entity and also shutters migrants’ dreams and illusions of a promise-land. READ MORE
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9. Good Cynicism : The Civic Potentials of Political Comedy and The Reasons for Its Absence on Colombian Television
University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medierAbstract : This research addresses the potential of political comedy and satire as television genres in the construction of democracy and civic culture in Colombia. Through a set of elite interviews with representative individuals in the media, political humor and media scholarship circles of the country; and through genre-based and political, economical and cultural analyses, this research underscores the real reasons for the absence of domestic political comedy on Colombian television. READ MORE
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10. “It’s like we’re all competing to make the best computer screen saver and the winner gets crowned most authentic” : An investigation of the idea of authenticity on the photo sharing platform Instagram.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och mediaAbstract : This study aims to contribute to the understanding of authenticity on the photo sharing service Instagram by analysing the two accounts @satiregram and @socalitybarbie. The two cases make use of parody and satire in order to poke fun at the dominant Instagram culture, which is according to media characterised by a lack of authenticity. READ MORE
