#19: Political Humor as Persuasion with Danna Young

08/17/20 • 58 min

Dr. Dannagal Young studies political humor. She pulls together psychology, communications, and political science, to understand how political satire works to change minds and expand political knowledge. She also has a new book: Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States, which explores how satire became a tool of political left and outrage media because a tool of the political right.
Some things that come up on this episode:

Daily Show viewers were particularly well-informed about the 2004 election (Young, 2004)
Jon Stewart defending the Daily Show on Crossfire (2006)
Jokes lead people to suspend critical thinking about a message (Polk, Young, & Holbert, 2009; Young, 2008)

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08/17/20 • 58 min

Opinion Science - #19: Political Humor as Persuasion with Danna Young

Transcript

Andy Luttrell:

Jon Stewart became host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central in 1999. The show became a hit, lampooning the news and producing some of the best political satire this country’s ever seen. And young people were ditching typical news programming and tuning instead into The Daily Show, but some people in the media scoffed. Jon Stewart, he’s a comedian! Do these kids realize this isn’t actually the news? Richard Morin wrote for the Washington Post in 2006,

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