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Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America, EPUB eBook

Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America EPUB

Edited by Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste, Juan Poblete

Part of the Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America series

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How online humor influences politics and culture in Latin America


This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive Latin American perspective on the role of humor in the Spanish- and Portuguese-language internet, highlighting how the production and circulation of online humor influence the regions relation to democracy and civil society and the production of meaning in everyday life.

Several case studies consider memes, including discussions of political cartoons in Mexico and imagery that portrays the mismanagement of natural disasters in Puerto Rico. Essays on Brazil examine how memes are shared on WhatsApp by Jair Bolsonaro supporters and how the Instagram account Barbie Fascionista offers memes as political commentary. Other case studies consider video content, including the sketches of Argentinian comedian Guillermo Aquino, the short-form material of Chilean vlogger Germn Garmendia, and a satirical YouTube column created by journalists in Colombia. Contributors also offer new methodologies for studying the laughable on social media, including a model for analyzing fake Twitter accounts.

Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin Americademonstrates that internet humor can generate novel means of public interaction with the political and cultural spheres and create greater expectations of governmental accountability and democratic participation. This volume shows the importance of paying serious attention to humorous digital content as part of contemporary culture.


Contributors:Eva Paulino Bueno | Juan Poblete | Alberto Centeno-Pulido | Damin Fraticelli | Juan Carlos Rodrguez | Viktor Chagas | Paul Alonso | Ulisses Sawczuk da Silva | Hctor Fernndez L'Hoeste | Alejandra Nallely Collado Campos | R. Snchez-Rivera | Mlodine Sommier | Fbio Marques de Souza

A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Hctor Fernndez LHoeste and Juan Carlos Rodrguez

Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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