The  brings to critical and intellectual attention the role of humour in the Global South. Most in the Global South live disempowered and precarious lives. Digital media and humour, as chapters in the volume demonstrate, have empowered citizens through engagement with power and their peers, enabling a pursuit of a better future. Contributors to the volume, while alive to challenges associated with the digital divide, highlight the potentials of social media and humour to engage and seek redress on issues such as corruption, human rights violations, racism and sexism. Contributors expertly analyse social media texts to demonstrate how citizens mimic, disrupt and ridicule status quo. This book caters for academics and students in media and communication, political, sociological and Global South studies.weiterlesen