This research assesses possible associations between viewing fake news (ie, political
satire) and attitudes of inefficacy, alienation, and cynicism toward political candidates. Using …

Research often collapses programming like The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Late
Show, and The Tonight Show into one category of programming. However, recent research …

Academic interest in what has been termed “infotainment” has grown considerably since the
term was coined in the 1980s. Today, the burgeoning field of infotainment research has …

Content analyses have focused on the messages offered in political TV satire, and the
communication discipline is amassing solid empirical evidence concerning a range of …

The book studies the intersections between satirical comedy and national politics in order to
show that one of the strongest supports for our democracy today comes from those of us who …

The influx of emerging news sources has led many to wonder whether mass publics will
become more responsible democratic citizens with rapidly expanding choices of information …

This project integrates a uses and gratifications perspective into the study of political satire,
to explore the reasons why young people prefer (or avoid) political satire programming, and …

Theories and Effects of Political HumorDiscounting Cues, Gateways, and the Impact of
Incongruities | The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication | Oxford Academic Skip to Main …

This study examines the impact of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, an American political
comedy show, on public attentiveness to politics. I found that watching the show was …

In this article, we argue that recent technological developments have made “mix-of-
attributes”(MOAs) framework particularly useful for theorizing about effects of today's “digital” …