{"id":40802279756,"date":"2024-02-25T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802279756"},"modified":"2024-02-28T17:48:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T22:48:53","slug":"prof-phillips-anderson-publishes-chapter-in-political-humor-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/prof-phillips-anderson-publishes-chapter-in-political-humor-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Phillips-Anderson Publishes Chapter in &#8220;Political Humor Worldwide&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/978-981-99-8490-9-199x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40802279758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/978-981-99-8490-9-199x300.jpeg 199w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/978-981-99-8490-9-680x1024.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/978-981-99-8490-9-768x1157.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/978-981-99-8490-9-100x150.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/978-981-99-8490-9.jpeg 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Phillips-Anderson, Ph.D., associate professor of communication, recently published the chapter, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-981-99-8490-9_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Founding Contradictions, Contemporary Expressions: Political Humor in American Culture<\/a>,\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-981-99-8490-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Political Humor Worldwide<\/a>, part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/series\/17019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Language of Politics Book Series<\/a> (Springer, 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chapter \u201cexamines the interplay between humor and culture in a time of political polarization and division in the United States,\u201d exploring how humor is derived from the incongruity between the stated ideals of the country\u2019s founding and the lived reality of its people. Phillips-Anderson demonstrates this phenomenon through examples such as the exaggerated look at local government in the fictionalized politics of \u201cParks and Recreation,\u201d as well as the rhetorical humor wielded by politicians, particularly Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this chapter, Phillips-Anderson also examines \u201ccancel culture\u201d and demonstrates how American comedy wrestles with free speech and accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Phillips-Anderson, Ph.D., associate professor of communication, recently published the chapter, \u201cFounding Contradictions, Contemporary Expressions: Political Humor in American Culture,\u201d in Political Humor Worldwide, part of The Language of Politics Book Series (Springer, 2024). The chapter \u201cexamines the interplay between humor and culture in a time of political polarization and division in the United States,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":40802280026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444,423],"tags":[],"person":[3808],"audience":[11,8],"school":[62,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802279756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monmouth-now","category-faculty-perspectives","person-michael-phillips-anderson","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","school-communication","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":{"id":40802280029,"rendered":"<img width=\"1173\" height=\"1173\" style=\"object-position: 49.93% 22.61%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/Michael-Phillips-Anderson_20240221_MG-1-square-e1708967641466.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Professor Michael Phillips-Anderson headshot in front of the Great Hall\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/Michael-Phillips-Anderson_20240221_MG-1-square-e1708967641466.jpg 1173w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/Michael-Phillips-Anderson_20240221_MG-1-square-e1708967641466-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/Michael-Phillips-Anderson_20240221_MG-1-square-e1708967641466-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/Michael-Phillips-Anderson_20240221_MG-1-square-e1708967641466-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/Michael-Phillips-Anderson_20240221_MG-1-square-e1708967641466-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/Michael-Phillips-Anderson_20240221_MG-1-square-e1708967641466-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/Michael-Phillips-Anderson_20240221_MG-1-square-e1708967641466-280x280.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/Michael-Phillips-Anderson_20240221_MG-1-square-e1708967641466-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1173px) 100vw, 1173px\" \/>","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2024\/02\/Michael-Phillips-Anderson_20240221_MG-1-square-e1708967641466.jpg","width":1173,"height":1173}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802279756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802279756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802279756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802279786,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802279756\/revisions\/40802279786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802280026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802279756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802279756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802279756"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802279756"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802279756"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802279756"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802279756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}