Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America
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Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America

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Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America

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How online humor influences politics and culture in Latin America

     

This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive Latin American perspective on the role of humor in the Spanish- and Portuguese-language internet, highlighting how the production and circulation of online humor influence the region’s relation to democracy and civil society and the production of meaning in everyday life.

    Several case studies consider memes, including discussions of political cartoons in Mexico and imagery that portrays the mismanagement of natural disasters in Puerto Rico. Essays on Brazil examine how memes are shared on WhatsApp by Jair Bolsonaro supporters and how the Instagram account Barbie Fascionista offers memes as political commentary. Other case studies consider video content, including the sketches of Argentinian comedian Guillermo Aquino, the short-form material of Chilean vlogger Germán Garmendia, and a satirical YouTube column created by journalists in Colombia. Contributors also offer new methodologies for studying the laughable on social media, including a model for analyzing fake Twitter accounts.

    Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America demonstrates that internet humor can generate novel means of public interaction with the political and cultural spheres and create greater expectations of governmental accountability and democratic participation. This volume shows the importance of paying serious attention to humorous digital content as part of contemporary culture.


Contributors: Eva Paulino Bueno | Juan Poblete | Alberto Centeno-Pulido | Damián Fraticelli | Juan Carlos Rodríguez | Viktor Chagas | Paul Alonso | Ulisses Sawczuk da Silva | Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste | Alejandra Nallely Collado Campos | R. Sánchez-Rivera | Mélodine Sommier | Fábio Marques de Souza

 

A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez

 

Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. 1. Introduction: Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America
  9. 2. Digital Humor as Cultural Globalization in Latin America
  10. 3. Hypermediatic Humor: Some Tools for Its Analysis
  11. 4. Satire as the Voice of Resistance in Guillermo Aquino’s El Sketch
  12. 5. Political Cartoons and Memes: Artifacts of Discourse Subversion through Humor
  13. 6. Cutting through Layers of Brazilian Humor: Sampling the Past, Commenting on the Present, and Perhaps Creating the Future
  14. 7. Humor and Nationalism in Bolsonarist Far-Right WhatsApp Memes in Brazil
  15. 8. Barbie Votes for Bolsonaro: How an Instagram Account Satirized the Brazilian Middle and Upper Classes
  16. 9. “Whatever … It’s Only a Joke!”: Exploring Memes, Racialization, and Discrimination in Puerto Rico during Hurricanes, Earthquakes, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
  17. 10. HolaSoyGermán: On Global Latin American Humor on YouTube
  18. 11. La Pulla: Humor as an Instrument of Intranational Hegemony
  19. List of Contributors
  20. Index
  21. Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America