Palin,<i>Saturday Night Live</i>, and Framing: Examining the Dynamics of Political Parody

Peifer, Jason T.

doi:10.1080/10714421.2013.807117

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“…In other words, a good political parody focuses first on nailing the impersonation if mimicking a politician or perfecting the format if mocking a debate or genre of television programming and considers the critical or satirical nature of the commentary as a secondary, yet still important, concern (Jones, 2009). As Peifer (2013) noted, ''In contrast with satire's playful-yet-aggressive judgments, parody is not necessarily critical at its core' ' (p. 158). Further, as Buijzen and Valkenburg (2004) suggested in their typology of audiovisual humor, ''Parody is a more complex humor category that requires knowledge of the particular media styles or genres that are being parodied' ' (p. 162).…”

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“…Historically demarcated as a unique humor type as is the case with satire, irony, or slapstick, parody is designed to offer an interpretation of a text that is really just a likeness of an original form, a copy that is infused with a critical perspective or take on a preexisting genre (Baym, 2009;Buijzen & Valkenburg, 2004;Peifer, 2013). Although many parodies are inherently satirical-especially political parody-and offer scathing criticism and commentary on politics, media, or society, the primary intent of parody is to promote a believable copy of an original, one that entertains viewers with a playful, laughter-inducing experience (Jones, 2009;C.…”

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Playing With Politics: Online Political Parody, Affinity for Political Humor, Anxiety Reduction, and Implications for Political Efficacy

Becker

2014

Mass Communication and Society

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The current study examines the relationships between exposure to partisan political parody, affinity for political humor given a desire to reduce anxiety, and internal political efficacy. Analyzing data from a spring 2013 experiment (N ¼ 269), the results suggest that prior media exposure, an affinity for political humor given the desire to reduce anxiety, and a preference for humor that attacks the opposition are significant predictors of political efficacy. In addition, a three-way interaction between partisan identification, humor type, and affinity for political humor (AFPH)-anxiety relative to the dependent variable of internal political efficacy was significant. In particular, high AFPH-anxiety Republicans who viewed Democrat-directed humor were more likely to feel politically efficacious. The significance of the findings is discussed along with suggestions for potential theoretical mechanisms that can guide future academic research on the democratic impacts of politically entertaining media.

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Playing With Politics: Online Political Parody, Affinity for Political Humor, Anxiety Reduction, and Implications for Political Efficacy

Becker

2014

Mass Communication and Society

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“…In media and political communication, studies of framing analyze how producers organize and their audiences make sense of meaning (Peifer, 2013). Frames guide the audience's interpretation (Pan & Kosicki, 1993;Peifer, 2013): they organize ideas or storylines (Gamson & Modigliani, 1989) or symbolic and abstract principles that create structure and meaning (Reese, 2001). Framing involves selecting facets of events or issues and highlighting and making connections between these components in order to promote a particular interpretation, evaluation, or solution (Entman, 2004, p. 5).…”

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Political satire and the counter-framing of public sector IT project escalation

Cranefield¹,

Oliver²,

Pries-Heje³

2020

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© 2018 by the Association for Information Systems. Despite significant research into why IT projects fail, the frequency and impact of failure remains high. Attention has shifted to understanding and guiding de-escalation (i.e., reversing failure). This major turnaround process initially benefits from negative feedback on the status quo and requires an organization to break its established frames and re-establish its legitimacy with stakeholders (Pan & Pan, 2011). We consider the role of satire as a lens to challenge dominant frames and better understand stakeholders during the shift towards de-escalation based on analyzing political cartoons about high-profile troubled public sector projects in New Zealand and Denmark. Drawing on the theories of technological frames of reference, legitimacy, and stakeholder salience, we show how cartoonists expose and critique the normative framing of dysfunctionality to act as field-level evaluators of legitimacy. Through counter-framing, exaggeration, and metaphor, they emphasize the urgency of citizen users’ claims while undermining the legitimacy of powerful stakeholders. We extract lessons for stakeholder management and communication during project turnaround and suggest that satire could be a valuable addition to diagnostic and planning tools during de-escalation. We identify that sensitivity to framing of IT projects exists in the public realm, which reinforces calls for organizations to consider institutional framing.

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“…Thus, whether the news is considered hard or soft is dependent on the news topic chosen, but also the framing of the topic. Although the framing approach is well established in political communication scholarship (Scheufele and Tewksbury, 2007), it has not been much used in political entertainment research even though it offers helpful orientation for studying the possibly alternative news frames of political comedy (Peifer, 2013).…”

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Making news funny: Differences in news framing between journalists and comedians

Ödmark

2018

Journalism

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Classic agenda setting and news framing research focuses on traditional media actors: journalists, political figures, professional communicators. However, the personalization of politics and journalism, as well as the rise of social media, is creating new spaces for other actors, like comedians. In the separation of vertical media (media which are still aiming for a wide audience with content of general relevance) and horizontal media (more specific media actors building a community around the content they produce), comedians can be considered actors in horizontal media, who help provide the community agenda. This study compares how comedians in horizontal media frame news and current affairs with how journalists in vertical media frame similar news. The study is performed via a quantitative content analysis of Swedish political comedy and traditional Swedish news coverage, with a focus on the emerging podcast medium. It shows that the comedic framing is dramatically more personal and emotional. It is also more thematic and more often on a societal level, while the journalistic news framing is more episodic and on an individual level. The comedic framing is also more focused on issues of political figures and processes, more negative, and more inclusive of different types of societal actors when compared to the news reporting of vertical media.

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Palin,Saturday Night Live, and Framing: Examining the Dynamics of Political Parody

Cited by 25 publications

References 26 publications

Playing With Politics: Online Political Parody, Affinity for Political Humor, Anxiety Reduction, and Implications for Political Efficacy

Playing With Politics: Online Political Parody, Affinity for Political Humor, Anxiety Reduction, and Implications for Political Efficacy

Political satire and the counter-framing of public sector IT project escalation

Making news funny: Differences in news framing between journalists and comedians

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