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Title: | The Most Trusted Team in News: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Collaborative Comic Activism and Public Intellectualism for Youth |
Authors: | Levely, Krista |
Advisor: | York, Lorraine |
Department: | English |
Keywords: | English Language and Literature;English Language and Literature |
Publication Date: | Aug-2005 |
Abstract: | <p>In a news industry that seems to have lost its way, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart occupies a critical space in the public sphere, remapping traditional news categories to create a hybrid official/alternative/popular style, and restructuring audience demographics to include leftist college students and moderate conservatives, all of whom flock to a format that resolves to search for truth and to combat those who stand in its way. Host Jon Stewart is a revolutionary public figure who combines the roles of concerned citizen, comic activist and public intellectual to gain trust, moral authority, and respect from an audience tired of the split-screen debates, punditry and bullshit, and thirsty for a reinvigoration of critical analysis and political engagement.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/9564 |
Identifier: | opendissertations/4676 5698 2056965 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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