Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America

The first book to provide a comprehensive Latin American perspective on the role of humour in the Spanish- and Portuguese-language internet, highlighting how the production and circulation of online humour influences the region’s relation to democracy and civil society and the production of meaning in everyday life.
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 Paulina 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

Contributor: Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste (Edited by), Juan Poblete (Edited by)

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