The Necessity of Satire in Media Literacy: Stephen Colbert’s Use of Sophistic and Socratic Irony
Media literacy campaigns champion systematic thinking and high elaboration in the fight against fake news. However, they often overlook an ancient tool for discrediting demagogues and destroying disinformation: satire. This essay explores how satirist Stephen Colbert used irony in his 2010 congressi...
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| Language: | English |
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2018-06-01
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| Series: | Baltic Journal of Law & Politics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2018-0008 |