Understanding Culture Wars through Satirical/Political Infotainment TV: Jon Stewart and The Daily Show 's Critique as Mediated Re-enactement of the Culture War
2012; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 42; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/crv.2012.0020
ISSN1710-114X
Autores Tópico(s)Gender, Feminism, and Media
ResumoAbstract: Recent US culture wars have been waged through televised entertainment news (infotainment TV). The imprint left by Jon Stewart and The Daily Show on mainstream news outlets has been analyzed in political communication studies and media studies. However, no one has so far made a case for Jon Stewart as a protagonist in these culture wars, especially because Stewart himself wants to stay clear of and set himself apart from them. This paper looks at the performativity of these culture wars in infotainment TV as the medium and locus where the culture wars are waged. While I recognize the crucial role played by Jon Stewart and The Daily Show in critiquing news-media coverage of American politics, I nevertheless contend that Stewart can also be seen as a culture warrior, albeit an unwilling one, and that, by giving him a voice, the medium of infotainment TV is turning him into such a warrior. My argument is predicated on the belief that satirical/political infotainment TV is an important locus of the ...
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