Title TBD Journalism is a free man’s profession, and only trough rebellion can its dignity be preserved – José Umaña Bernal (translation draft) April 1st of 2017: journalist and satirist Daniel Samper Ospina releases a controversial YouTube video that questions the values and honesty of Colombia’s right wing leaders. July 14th of 2017: through his […]
Book: Humour in Political Activism: Creative Nonviolent Resistance by MajkenSørensen
In 2017 Daniel Samper Ospina won the prestigious Simón Bolivar National Journalism Award, which celebrates truth and integrity in the Colombian press. But the piece that he was recognized for was not a newspaper article or TV reportage. It was a satirical YouTube video where he exposed the corruption and dishonesty of the Colombian right […]
Throughout the article “Usually I Love The Onion, but This Time you’ve Gone Too Far,” Tom Coogan introduces a variety of theories and points of view regarding disability humor, as well as a variety of examples from the online satirical platform The Onion, that serve to complement and connect those individual theories. There are several […]
Having been born and raised in Colombia, I had not been exposed to American political satire until recently. Therefore, it can be difficult for me to talk about American politics and American comedy. Even though I understand that what happens in this country surely affects the rest of the world, and that by fighting for […]
Before I started reading “Why Women Aren’t Funny,” I was pretty sure that the author had used that title as a deceiving device, a kind of “click-bait,” and that the content of the article would actually be some sort of feminist manifesto. Surprisingly, there was nothing deceiving about it. Unfortunately, it could not be more […]
Richard Bernstein’s “’Just Kidding’ – But at Whose Expense” was published in The New York Times in 1990. In the article, he argues that as society has adopted a more liberal set of values, some people increasingly encounter situations in which they cannot express themselves as they would like to, especially when it comes to […]
Thomas Hobbes: In Human Nature, Thomas Hobbes describes laughter as the physical manifestation of an unknown passion that is caused by a sense of superiority. Immanuel Kant: In Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant suggests that laughter is the outcome of a sort of play with the mind, and he argues that the reason why […]