Political humor in live tweeting. Its kinds and circulations in the construction of events
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https://doi.org/10.24137/raeic.9.17.1Keywords:
Political Humor, Live tweeting, Twitter, PoliticAbstract
The tweeting of political humor on television broadcasts is a common practice that should be considered if we want to understand how events are constructed in today's societies. Its existence implies complex procedures of collaborative appropriation by Internet users and by the media that editorialize the events with their memes. Here we will describe how this political humor operates, focusing on how its enunciators act, what kinds of discourse it produces and the types of circulations it generates. The events analyzed are the first speech at the opening of the legislative sessions of Argentine President Alberto Fernández, in March 2020, and the debate in the Argentine Senate on the Law on the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy, in December of the same year. Its analysis allowed us to observe that the political humor of live tweeting has more retweets and likes than serious tweets and that its exchanges are not limited to the laughable but encourage debates among Internet users. In turn, we distinguished four discursive classes (political satire, mockery, the comic situation, and collective humor) that imply different ways of contacting the transmitted event and we circumscribe modalities of appropriation of the informative institutions.
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