Fandom versus citizenship: the “weirdisation” of politics
This paper examines occurrences of humour in Twitter-fed celebrity-follower communities. Using a small, one-month sample of the Twitter feeds of 12 British celebrities, we examined political and humorous content of celebrity tweets and the first five responses from their followers. From this prelim...
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oai:doaj.org-article:50a45ef4f9e34eb68fe39763139ccdd62021-11-05T08:50:11ZFandom versus citizenship: the “weirdisation” of politics10.7592/EJHR2021.9.3.5272307-700Xhttps://doaj.org/article/50a45ef4f9e34eb68fe39763139ccdd62021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/527https://doaj.org/toc/2307-700X This paper examines occurrences of humour in Twitter-fed celebrity-follower communities. Using a small, one-month sample of the Twitter feeds of 12 British celebrities, we examined political and humorous content of celebrity tweets and the first five responses from their followers. From this preliminary study, we found that the notion of “weirdisation” strongly emerges, together with the new conceptual tool of “shards of humour”. Delia ChiaroNikita LobanovCracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language StudiesarticleTwittercelebritiesnetworkstribalizationfandomsLanguage and LiteraturePENThe European Journal of Humour Research, Vol 9, Iss 3 (2021) |
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This paper examines occurrences of humour in Twitter-fed celebrity-follower communities. Using a small, one-month sample of the Twitter feeds of 12 British celebrities, we examined political and humorous content of celebrity tweets and the first five responses from their followers. From this preliminary study, we found that the notion of “weirdisation” strongly emerges, together with the new conceptual tool of “shards of humour”.
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