{"id":1198,"date":"2012-02-10T16:39:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T21:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2012-03-08T21:12:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T02:12:55","slug":"political-satire-political-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2012\/02\/10\/political-satire-political-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Satire &amp; Political Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Society Pages&#8217; second Roundtable, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/roundtables\/humor\/\">Laughter and the Political Landscape<\/a>, <\/strong> asked media and communication scholars to reflect on political humor and satire.\u00a0The Roundtable would be a great resource in any class or section on media and politics.\u00a0I may be outing myself here as a complete addict of The Daily Show, but how can you not use The Daily Show for a section on political humor?!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/\">The Daily Show<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/\">The Colbert Report<\/a> are very lefty (even though Stephen Colbert&#8217;s bit is as a staunch conservative), but wherever your students are politically, these shows serve as a great example of using satire in a surface way (focusing on a politician&#8217;s physical characteristics, for example), as well as a tool to\u00a0criticize\u00a0their character and politics.<\/p>\n<p>The Roundtable poses the question of how political humor works to engage young people in politics. You could use the Roundtable discussion to get a conversation going in your class about how students understand and digest political humor as well as their perceptions of its potential for encouraging political engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society Pages&#8217; second Roundtable, Laughter and the Political Landscape, asked media and communication scholars to reflect on political humor and satire.\u00a0The Roundtable would be a great resource in any class or section on media and politics.\u00a0I may be outing myself here as a complete addict of The Daily Show, but how can you not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[838],"tags":[85,12897],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readings","tag-politics","tag-presidents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}