Serious laughs: Blackness, Humour and Social Media in Contemporary France

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_15874
dc.contributor.author	Jedlowski Alessandro
dc.title	Serious laughs: Blackness, Humour and Social Media in Contemporary France
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This chapter analyses the emergence of a generation of influential black French humourists through YouTube, Instagram and other social media platforms, and connects it to the history of minority humour in France. The work of the new generation differs from the sketches of early comedians because of the specific opportunities and constraints that social media offer. Thanks to new media technologies, these comedians’ work addresses both African diasporas within France and audiences in African and Caribbean countries connected to France by the legacies of the colonial experience. It thus has repercussions both within and beyond the nation.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi e ricerche
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-01-26
dc.dateAccepted	2022-10-21
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-07-13
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-678-7/serious-laughs-blackness-humour-and-social-media-i/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-677-0/007
dc.identifier.issn	2610-993X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9123
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-678-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-677-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Black comedians
dc.subject	Humour
dc.subject	Politics
dc.subject	Postcolonial France
dc.subject	Social media

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Serious laughs: Blackness, Humour and Social Media in Contemporary France

Alessandro Jedlowski Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italia

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This chapter analyses the emergence of a generation of influential black French humourists through YouTube, Instagram and other social media platforms, and connects it to the history of minority humour in France. The work of the new generation differs from the sketches of early comedians because of the specific opportunities and constraints that social media offer. Thanks to new media technologies, these comedians’ work addresses both African diasporas within France and audiences in African and Caribbean countries connected to France by the legacies of the colonial experience. It thus has repercussions both within and beyond the nation.

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Jan. 26, 2023

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Oct. 21, 2022

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July 13, 2022

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978-88-6969-678-7

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978-88-6969-677-0

Keywords: Postcolonial France • Black comedians • Humour • Social media • Politics

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