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.
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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.