[ecrea] CFP IC 12: "From Enlightened Humour to Media Satire: Discourses and Practices of Dissent in Times of Crisis"

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Submission period: 01/12/2014-15/05/2015
From Enlightened Humour to Media Satire: Discourses and Practices of 
Dissent in Times of Crisis

Humour and satire are currently experiencing an important comeback that 
cannot but be understood as a symptom of the years of crisis. The 
launching of the monthly digital humour magazine Orgullo y Satisfacción 
[Pride and Satisfaction] in September 2014 and the magazine Mongolia in 
March 2012, are good examples of this phenomenon. Both could be regarded 
as counter-hegemonic media that, under the pretext of the right of 
citizens to receive – and communicate – factual information, including 
the freedom of speech and conscience, contribute to revealing what the 
official discourse conceals or its contradictions, as well as offering 
an alternative lens through which to view the facts that it presents, as 
a way of practising “countervisuality”.
This resurgence of humour and satire as a form of social protest and 
criticism leads us to reflect on the possibilities, uses and 
appropriations of such languages in both the practice of dissent and 
entertainment in different historical contexts. The importance of such 
languages is underlined by their relation to the practice of freedom of 
speech, since both humour and satire offer individuals an effective way 
of escaping from repression and troubles, above all in times of crisis, 
a moment when they become efficient weapons for intervening in history 
and providing a channel for the plurality of ideas (or non-official 
discourses).
Humour and satire act upon the real-immediate, or daily routine, 
revealing what the discourses and actions of the representatives of 
officialdom conceal. And they usually do so by using epistemic inversion 
or, occasionally, deformed aesthetics, thus experimenting with narrative 
resources belonging to very different disciplinary fields. What is more, 
throughout the history of mankind the aforementioned languages have 
shown their performative capacity to adapt to new media and formats, and 
to dovetail with other forms of communication, both new and old – which 
leads us to believe that there is a need to link the reconstruction of 
the history of their uses to social mediation.
Such a premise, therefore, confronts us with the idea of conceiving 
humour and satire as manifestations that promote alternative social 
practices, whether for defending the status quo or for promoting changes 
in the social structure.
On another level, there is evidently a need to study their 
communicational efficiency based on the analysis of the continuities in 
their ways of narrating and developing into a cultural product in 
different eras – from the Enlightenment to the 21st century – in 
addition to analyzing their reception, their effects in different 
contexts, or the way in which they were able to determine the vision of 
themselves and access to the world of different collectivities.
Therefore, we propose the following lines of research which could 
contribute to a wider interdisciplinary approach to humour and satire as 
communicational phenomena:

– The 18th century: enlightened satire
– Satirical imagery and publications in the 19th century
– The integration of the popular in mass culture by means of humour and 
satire
– Humour and satire as discourses of dissent
– Cartoon humour and alternative ways of approaching current affairs
– Continuities and differences between popular humour, modern humour and 
media humour
– The birth of humoristic and satirical publications in times of crisis 
(from contemporary Spain to our times)

Authors should submit their manuscripts though the digital platform OJS 
(http://icjournal-ojs.org/index.php/IC-Journal/login), and for any 
queries should email IC staff at: (info /at/ ic-journal.org).
To be considered for publication in IC, all manuscripts must fully 
satisfy the requirements set out in the author guidelines available at: 
http://ic-journal.org/normas-e-informacion-para-autores/

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María Lamuedra Graván
Investigadora Contratada Ramón y Cajal
Editora de IC Revista Científica de Información y Comunicación: 
http://www.ic-journal.org/
Departamento de Periodismo I
Facultad de Comunicación
Universidad de Sevilla



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