Pussy Riot’s humour and the social media: Self-irony, subversion, and solidarity

This paper seeks to demonstrate that both the media impact and political success of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot rest on their use of new media, on the one hand, and on an aesthetic principle of humour, on the other, or, more specifically, on a kind of humour that is both self-reflexive and subv...

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Main Author: Berenice Pahl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies 2017-01-01
Series:The European Journal of Humour Research
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Online Access:https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr/article/view/167