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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Colbert Report"”.
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Searching for Truth(iness): Mapping the Religio-Political Landscape and Identity of Christian Emerging Adults Through a Reception Study of the Colbert Report
… explores the way Comedy Central's <em>The Colbert Report</em> portrays Christianity, how young Christian viewers negotiate their religio-political identity in relation to the show, and what this negotiation says about the religio-political landscape of Christian emerging adults (19-29) …
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Unburdened by Objectivity: Political Entertainment News in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
… on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report to determine how they confront the tension between the genres of news and entertainment. To this point, much of the scholarly work on political entertainment news has focused on examining its effects on viewers' political attitudes …
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The Politics of Getting the Joke: The Effects of Political Humor on Information Seeking Behavior
… the present dissertation examines how The Colbert Report (in both video and single image meme formats) encourages the survey participants towards seeking more information about an important domestic issue: the fiscal cliff crisis.;Using two parallel experimental surveys, this dissertation …
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Fake news, real hip: rhetorical dimensions of ironic communication in mass media
… specifically examining the work of Stephen Colbert. First, this work examines classic definitions of satire and contemporary definitions and usages of irony in an effort to understand how they function in the fake news genre. Using a theory of postmodern knowledge, this work aims to …
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Satire as Journalism: The Daily Show and American Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
… this nexus between media satire and news reporting - and the communities that are building around it - has for journalism and its traditional role in our participatory democracy. Research for this study, especially ideas and perceptions about how mainstream media work, is grounded in my …