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