Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age

Perspectives from the Global South

Shepherd Mpofu

 

Synopsis

The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age: Perspectives from the Global South brings to critical and intellectual attention the role of humour in the digital era in the Global South. Many citizens of the Global South live disempowered and precarious lives. Examples used include Zimbabwe.

Review

This is a hard headed take which is as much about the robust ridiculing of the pretensions of postcolonial regimes, as about the dangers of the accelerated dispersion of prejudice and stereotype. A timely and exigent intervention. - Dilip M Menon

Author

Shepherd Mpofu is Associate Professor in Media and Communications at the University of Limpopo, South Africa.

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