COMM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Critical Inquiry, Deliberative Democracy

• School: U of M
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 102
• Professor: Nojin Kwak

Document Summary

Laughter ex: the daily show: option 1: jokes about politics, option 2: politics with jokes, baym. Fake news update is used to question the status quo (institutions, norms, the govt. : satire delivers a complex mix of comedy and politics, rejects dispassionate observation (picks a point of view, humor as a license to critique power. Journalism as parody: anchors play the role of journalist, critique of media"s inability to engage in critical inquiry, asks viewers to consider what a journalist"s job should be.