Kritik Comic dalam Kompetisi Kritik DPR 2018 sebagai Praktik Demokrasi by Ananda Ashari, Adi Bayu Mahadian

“…Stand-up comedy can function as a medium of entertainment as well as a media channeling people's aspirations including political criticism as a form of democracy. This research uses Teun A. van Dijk's discourse analysis method which is supported by bisociation theory as one of humor theories, with the aim of the research to find out the theme, discourse, humorous discourse display and the role of stand-up comedy as a form of democracy based on Aji Pratama's stand-up comedy in 2018 DPR critics competition. …”
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An Analysis of the Concept of Identity Crisis in Ali Bader’s The Tobacco Keeper by Huda Mohamed Saleh

“…The novel can be considered as a political criticism of the various regimes in Iraq. The paper is divided into three sections. …”
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SOCIAL EDUCATION THROUGH DIGITAL LITERACY AMONG INDONESIAN FEMALE MUSLIM ACTIVISTS: The Experience of Abdurrahman Wahid’s Daughters by Evi Fatimatur Rusydiyah

“…Through the enhancement of the society’s cognitive level, it further argues, those women Muslim activists have skillfully developed digital literacy-based social education for people’s socio-political criticism.…”
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El más frío de los monstruos. Notas sobre Poder Judicial y Reforma Universitaria / The coldest of the monsters. Notes on Judicial Power and University Reform by Guillermo Vázquez

“…Abstract This work aims at reflecting on the political criticism towards the Judicial Power from the struggle movements  at  university -mainly from the student movement-.  …”
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“It’s a Balancing Act”: Contradictory Ambitions of Journalistic Media in Addressing Harassment in Sport by Veera Ehrlén

“…While the interviews highlight the changing face of sports journalism and, within it, an ambition to move from entertainment and performance reporting to socio-politically critical journalism, the article also highlights the problematic contradictions embedded in the ambition within sports media to address harassment in sport. …”
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Binders full of LOLitics: Political humour, internet memes, and play in the 2012 US Presidential Election (and beyond) by Geniesa Tay

“…The results argue that humorous viral texts, both visual and verbal, reveal the potential power that ordinary people have in setting the agenda for newsmakers, and to communicate political criticism through popular culture.…”
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Scientists' political behaviors are not driven by individual-level government benefits. by Baobao Zhang, Matto Mildenberger

“…Is it appropriate for scientists to engage in political advocacy? Some political critics of scientists argue that scientists have become partisan political actors with self-serving financial agendas. …”
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The murga: voice and popular feeling by Franca Roibal Fernández

“…It is theater, music, identity, myth, political criticism; it is the voice of the people. The murga is a group of popular musical theater whose members sing and act on various tablados –neighborhood makeshift stages– and it is the most political component of Uruguayan Carnival. …”
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From Performance to Literature and Cinema: Adivasi Art and Activism, with a Focus on Eastern India by Raphaël Rousseleau

“…Activist art is a rather recent development within contemporary art, articulating reflections on artistic expression, art commodification, and political criticism. When it comes to Adivasi arts, however, one tends to think of dances or of Gond and Warli paintings of trees and animals. …”
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Genre-Hybridization – a Key to Hyper-Bestsellers? by Kerstin Bergman

“…The two novels are found to share many genre-related features, in particular, their dynamic detective duos, feminist agendas, anti-authoritarian attitudes, political criticism, exoticism, and religious elements. …”
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Humor and politics in the deconstruction of superheroes in Latin America during the Cold War: the look of comics by Ivan Lima Gomes

“…In both of them, the focus primarily lied on superheroes, mixing parody and political criticism when discussing the superhero’s action in Latin America. …”
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Feminist Strategies Against Digital Violence: Embodying and Politicizing the Internet by Marcela Suárez Estrada

“…By conducting a digital ethnography with two social collectives located in Mexico City – Luchadoras and Laboratorio de Interconectividades – I argue that embodying and politicizing technologies are strategies to mobilize the body as a political, critical and material category, which reveals a renewed feminist agency in hacking the hegemonic meanings of digital technology and resignifying its materiality in order to politicize it. …”
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La oposición a la dictadura de Miguel Primo de Rivera a través de la prensa mercurial chilena (1923-1930) by Mario Valdés Urrutia

“…The reaction to the coup d'etat of Primo de Rivera in 1923, political criticism together with certain attempts to unseat the dictator, and the rejection of the authoritarian and antiliberal political project are all considered.…”
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Social tension : the paradox of Malaysian online journalism / Rahmat Ghazali by Ghazali, Rahmat

“…It also extensively advocates social and political criticisms, which were never before seen in the mainstream mass media. …”
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Socio Cultural Reactions Before the Nationalitation of Dutch Railroad in Indonesia 1945-1958 by Widi Wardojo Waskito, Tri Sulistiyono Singgih, Susilowati Endang, Rochwulaningsih Yety

“…Research results show that the phenomenon of xenophobia that occurred in the decade of the 50s is part of the national socio-political criticism expressed through various forms of social culture.…”
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Hidden Power and Built Form: The Politics Behind the Architecture

“…He is, however, best known, and at his most controversial, in the fields of political criticism and activism. Perhaps the most prolific author alive today he has engaged with issues ranging from the Vietnam War, US policy in South and Central America, what he calls the ‘US-Palestinian-Israeli problem’, the Spanish Civil War and the Indonesian invasion of East Timor, to name but a few. …”
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Media Bias: A Corpus-based Linguistic Analysis of Online Iranian Coverage of the Syrian Revolution by Al-Gamde Amaal, Tenbrink Thora

“…Since the Islamic Republic of Iran was a major regional ally of the Syrian government, we questioned the extent to which ideological independence could be expected during a politically critical time frame. Taking a corpus-based linguistic approach, the study explores the semantic macrostructures representing the opposition as well as the lexical clusters and keywords characterizing the news discourse. …”
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Zhang Junmai’s Early Political Philosophy and the Paradoxes of Chinese Modernity by Eric S. Nelson

“…Whereas these movements advocated scientific rationality and thorough Westernization, Zhang’s education and research in Germany before and after the First World War led him to a critical perspective on Western modernity informed by its contemporary crisis tendencies and Western philosophical and social-political critics. Zhang adopted elements from German Idealism, life-philosophy, and social democracy to critique the May Fourth and New Culture Movements and reconstruct the “rational core” and ethical sensibility of Confucian philosophy. …”
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The Arena of Thanatos: Psuché, Soma, and Sigalit Landau's body representation—a comparative study by Nava Sevilla Sadeh

“…However, while the political meanings of the ancient body images were constituted in manifestations of religion by means of purification, and were aimed at praising the homeland (polis), Landau's bodies manifest meanings of abjection, express political criticism, and are thus profane, reflecting loss of faith. …”
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“Lying flat-ism”: is the party under Xi “governing people to death”? by Thornton, PM

“…One such example is the rise of “lying flat” as a term of passive popular resistance that circulated widely in 2021 before it was colonized by official discourse and transformed into a broader tool of political criticism by the central authorities, who identified it with laxity, “formalism,” and incompetence, particularly at lower levels of the Party-state. …”