Guest Contributor

Amber Day

Amber Day is Associate Professor of Media and Performance Studies at Bryant University. She is the author of "Satire and Dissent: Interventions in Contemporary Political Debate." She has articles in Social Research, Popular Communication, The International Journal of Communication, The Electronic Journal of Communication, Communicazione Politica, and the anthology Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post Network Era. Her research focuses on irony and satire, political performance and activism, and public debate.
Satire Might Not Sway Votes, But That Isn’t the Point Screenshot/2014

Satire Might Not Sway Votes, But That Isn’t the Point

Snarkiness can have an impact on civic engagement and participatory democracy in other ways besides vote totals.