Vol. 13 No. 4 (2025)

Published 27 December 2025
Humour and conflict in the digital age. Special issue edited by Andrew Benjamin Bricker and Alberto Godioli

Editorial

Andrew Benjamin Bricker, Alberto Godioli
1-13
Humour and conflict in the digital age
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Articles

Dennis Meyhoff Brink
14-35
False affectivity and the manufacture of outrage: rethinking cartoon controversies
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Beer Prakken
36-56
Humorous political rhetoric in the US: analysing Trump’s and Ocasio-Cortez’s use of humour
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Raúl Acosta
57-68
Racist humour in Mexico's media: denouncers' inadvertent bolstering of bigotry
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Yousef Barahmeh
69-83
Laughing right: Jordanian political humour and right-wing ideologies in social media spaces
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‪Anastasiya Astapova, Maili Pilt
84-101
Combatting conspiracy theories (also via humour): a case study of an Estonian conspiracy debunking group on Facebook
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Jeanne Gaillard
102-117
On power and prejudice: Islam in French stand-up comedy
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Anastasiya Fiadotava, Władysław Chłopicki
118-137
The Belarus-Poland migrant crisis: views from both sides of the wall
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Alberto Godioli
138-157
Laughing on the edge: interpreting dark humour in court
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Carmelo Moreno
158-177
The harmful side of humour: the case of humourist Anónimo García against the Spanish judicial system (and against common sense, too)
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Andrew Benjamin Bricker
178-198
The degenerative aesthetics of the dankest meme lords: far-right satire in the twenty-first century
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Reviews

Holly Kasselder
199-203
Book review: Bhargava, Rashi and Richa Chilana (Eds.) (2023). Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy: Speaking Truth to Power. Taylor and Francis.
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Stephen Skalicky
204-206
Book review: Priego-Valverde, Béatrice (Ed.) (2024). Interactional Humor: Multimodal Design and Negotiation. De Gruyter Mouton.
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Hande Malgaç
207-211
Book review: Balkin, Sarah and Marc Mierowsky (2024). Comedy and Controversy: Scripting Public Speech. Cambridge University Press.
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Margherita Dore
212-214
Book review: Bown, Alfie (2024). Post-Comedy. Polity Press.
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Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera
215-218
Book review: Alonso, Paul (2024). Digital Satire in Latin America: Online Video Humor as Hybrid Alternative Media. University of Florida Press.
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Eemeli Hakoköngäs
219-221
Book review: Vuorelma, Johanna (2024). Irony in International Politics. Edinburgh University Press.
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Richard Scully
222-225
Book review: Moore, Tony, Mark Gibson, Chris McAuliffe & Maura Edmond (2024). Fringe to Famous: Cultural Production in Australia After the Creative Industries. Bloomsbury Academic.
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