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Monday, April 9, 2012

With this last academic article, I was unable to obtain the full document so I was forced to use the abstract. The title of the journal was, “Jokes, rhetoric and embodied racism: a rhetorical discourse analysis of the logics of racist jokes on the internet” and the authors name was Simon Weaver. In this journal, the author talks about racism on the internet or “cyber racism”. Since this was on the abstract, there was little information that I could retain from it. In the journal, Weaver chooses to talk about this subject because it can be seen in a lot of content over the internet. “It is argued that racist jokes can act as important rhetorical devices for serious racisms, and thus work in ways that can support racism in particular readings.” Weaver goes on to explain that there are two types of racism when it comes to jokes over the internet. “it is shown that internet jokes express two key logics of racism. These logics are inclusion and exclusion. It is argued that inclusion usually inferiorizes and employs race stereotypes whereas exclusion often does not.” He follows that up by saying how racism over the internet has been ignored for so long,” because of a reliance on a problematic and celebratory definition of the ethnic joke.”

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