News Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe (Hardcover)

In recent years, the US fake news program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has become a surprisingly important source of information, conversation, and commentary about public affairs. Perhaps more surprisingly, so-called 'fake news' is now a truly global phenomenon, with various forms of news parody and political satire programming appearing throughout the world. This collection of innovative chapters takes a close and critical look at global news parody from a wide range of countries including the USA and the UK, Italy and France, Hungary and Romania, Israel and Palestine, Iran and India, Australia, Germany, and Denmark. Traversing a range of national cultures, political systems, and programming forms, News Parody and Political Satire Across the Globe offers insight into the central and perhaps controversial role that news parody has come to play in the world, and explores the multiple forces that enable and constrain its performance. It will help readers to better understand the intersections of journalism, politics, and comedy as they take shape across the globe in a variety of political and media systems. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Popular Communication.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2012
First published:	2013
Editors:	Geoffrey Baym • Jeffrey Jones
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	188
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-69293-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
LSN:	0-415-69293-8
Barcode:	9780415692939

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