Start Date
18-12-2020 9:45 AM
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The disciplines of comedy and politics intersect at one place: Late-Night Television. For years, late-night has blurred the lines between traditional news and humor. This overlap was made even more clear when host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" Jon Stewart was voted the most trusted journalist in America in a 2009 Time poll. More than a decade later, the late-night landscape and the political one it satirizes look very different. The country is becoming increasingly divided and late-night undoubtedly plays a role in viewers' political opinions. I would like to conduct a mixed-methods study to find out how sociopolitical satire and humor, or "late-night," affects political polarization and partisanship in America.
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Late Night & Political Polarization
The disciplines of comedy and politics intersect at one place: Late-Night Television. For years, late-night has blurred the lines between traditional news and humor. This overlap was made even more clear when host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" Jon Stewart was voted the most trusted journalist in America in a 2009 Time poll. More than a decade later, the late-night landscape and the political one it satirizes look very different. The country is becoming increasingly divided and late-night undoubtedly plays a role in viewers' political opinions. I would like to conduct a mixed-methods study to find out how sociopolitical satire and humor, or "late-night," affects political polarization and partisanship in America.
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Mentor: Christopher J. Finlay