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The Implications Of Viral Media & Advocacy: Kony 2012, Cassandra Bopp

Honors Projects in Communication

This research paper analyzes the video “Kony 2012” as an example of advocacy film making and viral media. By analyzing critical sources, I draw conclusions as to why this video became the most viral video of all time and how other advocacy groups can use this phenomenon to learn about viral advocacy media. Using data from LexisNexis Academic, I track the popularity of “Kony 2012” via different forms of media (blogs, news articles, etc.) and compare my data to prior research conducted on social media sites. Ultimately, I will find that several key characteristics can be pinpointed as the primary …

Is The Daily Show Bad For Democracy? An Analysis Of Cynicism And Its Significance, Evan Bartlett

Honors Projects in History and Social Sciences

In recent years, satirical news programs like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart have emerged as an important development in contemporary American society, culture, and politics. Critics have argued that The Daily Show has a negative impact on the political attitudes of American citizens by making them cynical about government and the political process as a whole. As a result of these attitudes, they argue, citizens are less apt to participate in politics and, in turn, this behavior is detrimental to American democracy. The purpose of this research project is to explore the debate over whether or not The Daily …

Satire And Dissent: A Theoretical Overview, Amber Day

English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles

In an age when Jon Stewart tops lists of most-trusted newscasters and Michael Moore becomes a focus of political campaign analysis, the satiric register has attained renewed and urgent prominence in political discourse. Day focuses on three central contemporary forms: the parodic news show, the satiric documentary, and ironic activism. She highlights their shared objective of circumventing the standard conduits of political information and the highly stage-managed nature of current political discourse. In so doing, she argues, they provide fans with a sense of community and purpose notably lacking from organized politics in the twenty-first century.

Live From New York, It's The Fake News! Saturday Night Live And The (Non)Politics Of Parody, Amber Day, Ethan Thompson

English and Cultural Studies Journal Articles

Though Saturday Night Live's “Weekend Update” has become one of the most iconic of fake news programs, it is remarkably unfocused on either satiric critique or parody of particular news conventions. Instead, the segment has been shaped by a series of hosts who made a name for themselves by developing distinctive comic personalities. In contrast to more politically invested contemporary programs, the genre of fake news on Saturday Night Live has been largely emptied to serve the needs of the larger show, maintaining its status as just topical, hip, and unthreatening enough to attract celebrities and politicians, as well …

The White Hydrangeas, Larry O'Brien

Bryant Literary Review

You notice them first while getting the mail,

in the airless heat of an August noon,

Life On Mars, Eileen Russell

Bryant Literary Review

Chapter One

I knew I'd barely survive an eight-hundred mile road trip with Bill and Fran, from the tip of Florida's peninsula

Apple For Your Thought Processes?, Eric Cisternelli

Bryant Literary Review

Like hundreds of flies to a carcass

Sacrificing money at an altar,

Go Gentle Into That Good Night (After Dylan Thomas), Bart Edelman

Bryant Literary Review

Please, please, go gentle into that good night,

Old age should never burn at close of day;

C. Bowen, Plumber, Paul Hostovsky

Bryant Literary Review

I like this guy

before we even meet.

He's the only one

Surabaya Animal Market, David Pinault

Bryant Literary Review

In loving memory of

Paul George Pinault

1947 - 2011

The trim lancet window with the elegantly etched lettering

Mozart, B. Z. Niditch

Bryant Literary Review

You came to me

early

like butterflies

in my secret universe,

The Swings On Crane Avenue, Parker Williams

Bryant Literary Review

He loved them,

would sit there for hours and dream about flying,

Miss Mercy, C. Sanchez-Garcia

Bryant Literary Review

"How does it feel, where you are?"

"It's okay. You keep it cool in here."

Moon Rise, John P. Kristofco

Bryant Literary Review

when colors and their implications fade

into the twist of trees,

Fountain, Josh Wardrip

Bryant Literary Review

In those days I would take the #3 downtown where I spent my afternoons having lunch at one of the little diners

Small Blue Butterflies, Buff Whitman-Bradley

Bryant Literary Review

On a walk around the lake

I pause to watch three small blue butterflies

What Jupiter Knows, Wendy Smith-Stenhouse

Bryant Literary Review

Thing is... Nobody cares less about me missing the Junior Spring Fling than me. But Blaine, with his beer stink and lolling eyeballs,

Yesterday's Tongue, John Mckernan

Bryant Literary Review

Its syllables

Dripping to the brown earth

Disconnected, Jim Hart

Bryant Literary Review

I'm leaving you - she said

The words hanging in the air between us

Taking Liberties, Jim Hart

Bryant Literary Review

Geography

is melting

Glaciers

The Cow Near Matamoros, Carol Hamilton

Bryant Literary Review

Tied to her terror,

her placid, brush-haired sides

so like a back room

Who Is We?, Kevin Mcintosh

Bryant Literary Review

Patrick Lynch is passing back personal narratives to his second period. He used to call them memoirs,

To Ansel Adams, John Sibley Williams

Bryant Literary Review

It could have been

color

if mountains and dreams

Drive-Ins, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

I should have noticed something

was up when the film stopped mid-reel.

The Propensity For Monologue, John Sibley Williams

Bryant Literary Review

I'd like to be a sparrow,

bring new morning

each time I speak.

Sanctum, Robert Mcguill

Bryant Literary Review

The places where water comes together

with other water. Those places stand out

in my mind like holy places.

--Raymond Carver

Water. Crashing. Thundering down the boulders.

Rebel In A Plaid Skirt, Janet Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

She moved robotically through junior high

learned by rote, kept imagination in check,

Junior Munson Does The Long Haul, Elton Glaser

Bryant Literary Review

I like to start my mornings

Sunnyside up at a truckstop,

Going-Away Party, Elton Glaser

Bryant Literary Review

Inside the white envelope, I find

An invitation to my death.

You can steam off the stamps,

The Referee, David Alan Goldstein

Bryant Literary Review

Martin Abramson believed that very small, innocuous and seemly trivial acts were the key