{"id":1313,"date":"2012-03-12T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2014-11-25T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:24:40","slug":"political-humor-on-office-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2012\/03\/12\/political-humor-on-office-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Humor on Office Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1314\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/files\/2012\/03\/3609608946_1b25d4bdac_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1314\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/files\/2012\/03\/3609608946_1b25d4bdac_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by karen horton via flickr.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I posted last month about The Society Pages&#8217; Roundtable entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/roundtables\/humor\/\">Laughter and the Political Landscape<\/a> \u00a0but realized I didn&#8217;t link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2012\/02\/09\/heather-lamarre-on-politics-and-humor\/\">Office Hours interview with Heather LaMarre<\/a>. The interview is a great addition to the Roundtable because it\u00a0addresses two main points that I think are crucial for using this in the classroom:<\/p>\n<p>1. that political humor is not made or consumed exclusively by political liberals (11:15), and<\/p>\n<p>2. she asks what effect this type of political humor may have on the way young people participate in politics<span style=\"text-align: center\">? (17:52)<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1315\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/files\/2012\/03\/4580129399_b6c3a886cb_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1315\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/files\/2012\/03\/4580129399_b6c3a886cb_m-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by david_shankbone via flickr.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>&#8220;The big question is going to be whether people under 30, since\u00a0they&#8217;ve sort of\u00a0grown\u00a0up in this era of political satire and entertainment&#8230;are themselves as a generation developing a sense of humor about politics that&#8217;s good for democracy or a disgust about politics that&#8217;s bad for democracy? And that remains to be seen.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What do your students think??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted last month about The Society Pages&#8217; Roundtable entitled Laughter and the Political Landscape \u00a0but realized I didn&#8217;t link to the Office Hours interview with Heather LaMarre. The interview is a great addition to the Roundtable because it\u00a0addresses two main points that I think are crucial for using this in the classroom: 1. that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127403],"tags":[837,85,838],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-resources","tag-materials","tag-politics","tag-readings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","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=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}