Meghan Ference
Biographic Data
| ID | 138708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meghan Ference |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meghan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ference |
| SIGNATURE | FERENCE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brooklyn College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Satire, social media, and cultures of resistance
Retooled by social media and new communication technologies, the cultural politics of dissent in Kenya has become bolder and more open since the return of multi-party politics in the early 1990s. Tracing such changes, this chapter highlights lively domains of creative expression that disrupts political messages and unmasks political power in ways that upstage dominant news media. Satire, popular music, graffiti art, and cartoons capture rulers’ e…
Together We Can
Workers in Kenya's informal transportation sector are employed in what anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and organizational scholars call "dirty work," or occupations that are tainted morally, socially, or physically. Although the operators of matatu, minibus taxis, carry a large portion of the Kenya population daily, they face stigmatization and discrimination, which can result in a decrease in lifechances and in some cases even deat…
WatchingThe Daily Showin Kenya
Global distribution of a popular American television programme – Jon Stewart's Daily Show – offers a rare opportunity to examine transnational contingencies of meaning in political satire. Drawing on focus group discussions in Kenya, this analysis shows how some East Africans appropriated and reinterpreted – indeed unexpectedly subverted – The Daily Show's political content, deriving from it insights that Stewart himself might have found surprisi…
David Anderson, Susan Beckerleg, Degol Hailu and Axel Klein. The Khat Controversy
Together We Can
Workers in Kenya's informal transportation sector are employed in what anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and organizational scholars call "dirty work," or occupations that are tainted morally, socially, or physically. Although the operators of matatu, minibus taxis, carry a large portion of the Kenya population daily, they face stigmatization and discrimination, which can result in a decrease in lifechances and in some cases even deat…
WatchingThe Daily Showin Kenya
Global distribution of a popular American television programme – Jon Stewart's Daily Show – offers a rare opportunity to examine transnational contingencies of meaning in political satire. Drawing on focus group discussions in Kenya, this analysis shows how some East Africans appropriated and reinterpreted – indeed unexpectedly subverted – The Daily Show's political content, deriving from it insights that Stewart himself might have found surprisi…
David Anderson, Susan Beckerleg, Degol Hailu and Axel Klein. The Khat Controversy
WatchingThe Daily Showin Kenya
Global distribution of a popular American television programme – Jon Stewart's Daily Show – offers a rare opportunity to examine transnational contingencies of meaning in political satire. Drawing on focus group discussions in Kenya, this analysis shows how some East Africans appropriated and reinterpreted – indeed unexpectedly subverted – The Daily Show's political content, deriving from it insights that Stewart himself might have found surprisi…
Together We Can
Workers in Kenya's informal transportation sector are employed in what anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and organizational scholars call "dirty work," or occupations that are tainted morally, socially, or physically. Although the operators of matatu, minibus taxis, carry a large portion of the Kenya population daily, they face stigmatization and discrimination, which can result in a decrease in lifechances and in some cases even deat…
Satire, social media, and cultures of resistance
Retooled by social media and new communication technologies, the cultural politics of dissent in Kenya has become bolder and more open since the return of multi-party politics in the early 1990s. Tracing such changes, this chapter highlights lively domains of creative expression that disrupts political messages and unmasks political power in ways that upstage dominant news media. Satire, popular music, graffiti art, and cartoons capture rulers’ e…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (2 works) · Kenya (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works)