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Crime and Punishment: Prigoshin’s Mutiny and Putin’s Revenge in Ukrainian and Russian Cartoons and Memes
No full textKarykatury i memy ilustrujące dwa epizody wojny rosyjsko-ukraińskiej: 1) bunt Jewgienija Prigożyna (założyciela prywatnej firmy wojskowej Wagner) 23 czerwca 2023 r. po rosnących napięciach między jego PMC a rosyjskim Ministerstwem Obrony oraz 2) jego śmierć w katastrofie lotniczej 23 sierpnia 2023 r.</p
SUPERHERO CONTRA BUTCHER: ZELENSKY AND PUTIN IN POLITICAL CARTOONS ON RUSSIAN AGGRESSION
No full textKarykatury w danych badawczych przedstawiają prezydentów Zełenskiego i Putina jako przedstawicieli Ukrainy i Rosji, stron konfliktu zbrojnego. Korpus badawczy (21 karykatur) jest częścią projektu "Śmiech w czasie wojny: rosyjska agresja na Ukrainie w politycznych karykaturach i memach" i reprezentuje krajowy i globalny poziom humorystycznego dyskursu.</p
Impartial humour in war times: global and national cartoons on Russian full-scale aggression in Ukraine
No full textThis article examines the use of impartial humour in political cartoons on the Russian-Ukrainian war. The dataset includes 18 political cartoons from Australia, the USA, Algeria, Morocco, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Greece, Taiwan, Qatar, Iran, Ukraine, and Russia. This dataset is a selection from a corpus of 3,780 political cartoons from 65 countries in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa, and Australia as a part of the research project “Laughter During the War: Russian Aggression in Ukraine in Political Cartoons and Memes”. The analysis of impartial humour is based on the corresponding parameters of political cartoons (goal-target, frame of reference-focus, and means-presentation) supplemented by two criteria: a) the author’s attitude toward the conflict parties and b) the author’s position toward the war and its consequences in general. Methodologically, it is supported by quantitative content analysis (MAXQDA2024). It highlights the unique characteristics of this humor and its significance within the study of political cartoons. The authors conclude that even if political cartoonists do not take a clear stance on the conflict parties, their work still reflects a vision of war as a global evil without borders. The paper offers insights into political cartoons as a vital element of modern culture, providing a platform for dialogue and discourse.</p
Superhero contra butcher: Zelensky and Putin in political cartoons on Russian aggression
Full text linkThis article integrates national and international levels of political humorous
discourse and proposes a multimodal analysis of the discursive dimension
of the Russian–Ukrainian war and its implementation in political humour. The
author analyses the distribution of supportive/subversive humour in world,
Ukrainian and Russian political cartoons targeting Ukrainian President
Zelensky and Russian President Putin and representing the conflict parties,
with special attention to the presentation/setting. The distribution of sup portive vs subversive political humour is based on an analysis of the target,
focus and setting of political cartoons depicting Putin and Zelensky, and on
the interaction of verbal and nonverbal elements in the cartoons. Political
cartoons can be defined by their goals, frames of reference and means.
These corresponding parameters (goal–target, frame of reference–focus,
means-setting) as well as the correlation between self-image/external image
and supportive/subversive political humour provide the analytical framework
for the articleThis research is part of the project No. 2022/45/P/HS2/02536 co-funded by the National Science Centre and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 94533
Wizualne świadectwo wojny rosyjsko-ukraińskiej. Generał Załużny w ukraińskich memach i karykaturach
No full textThis paper explores the strategic use of multimodal genres of humorous discourse (memes and cartoons) as “visual testimony” and tools of “imagefare” during recent armed conflicts, focusing on the Russian–Ukrainian War. It analyses how social media has transformed communication, democratised humour, and blurred the lines between content creators. The study outlines the interconnected concepts of visual propaganda, imagefare, and memetic warfare, emphasizing their unique features and hierarchical influence on public perceptions. It also examines the dual role of images as both visual testimony and “weaponised humour” in conflicts. Using Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA) and drawing from the Epistemology of Testimony, the paper studies Ukrainian memes and cartoons featuring General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The analysis highlights how these visual artifacts use specific joke techniques and multimodal interactions to shape narratives, mock opponents, and build collective identity, especially regarding Zaluzhnyi\u27s tactical skills and Russian losses.
W niniejszym artykule autor bada strategiczne wykorzystanie multimodalnych gatunków dyskursu humorystycznego (memów i karykatur) jako „wizualnego świadectwa” oraz narzędzi imagefare (wojny obrazem) podczas niedawnych konfliktów zbrojnych, skupiając się na wojnie rosyjsko-ukraińskiej. Analizuje on, w jaki sposób media społecznościowe przekształciły komunikację, zdemokratyzowały humor oraz zatarły granice między twórcami treści. Badanie przybliża powiązane ze sobą koncepcje propagandy wizualnej, imagefare oraz wojny memetycznej, kładąc nacisk na ich unikalne cechy i hierarchiczny wpływ na postrzeganie społeczne. Analizuje również podwójną rolę obrazów jako wizualnego świadectwa oraz „humoru jako broni” (weaponised humour) w konfliktach. Wykorzystując Multimodalną Analizę Dyskursu (MDA) i czerpiąc z epistemologii świadectwa, autor analizuje ukraińskie memy i karykatury z udziałem generała Walerija Załużnego, byłego Naczelnego Dowódcy Sił Zbrojnych Ukrainy. Analiza podkreśla, w jaki sposób te artefakty wizualne wykorzystują specyficzne techniki komizmu i interakcje multimodalne do kształtowania narracji, wyśmiewania przeciwników oraz budowania tożsamości zbiorowej, szczególnie w odniesieniu do umiejętności taktycznych Załużnego oraz rosyjskich strat
Crime and Punishment: Prigoshin’s Mutiny and Putin’s Revenge in Ukrainian and Russian Cartoons and Memes
Full text linkThe paper deals with the discursive dimension of two episodes of the Russo–Ukrainian war: The rebellion of Yevgeny Prigoshin (founder of the Wagner private military company) on 23 June 2023, and his death in an airplane crash on 23 August 2023. This dimension is implemented in Ukrainian and Russian political humor. Political satire, as a form of Humorous Media Political Discourse, can be described by its target, focus and setting. Political cartoons and memes, as genres of Humorous Media Political Discourse, can be defined by their goals, frame of reference and means. These corresponding parameters (goal–target, frame of reference–focus, means–setting), as well as the correlation between the discursive dimension and social context, provide the analytical framework for the paper. The methodology is based on the discourse and multimodality theories. Special attention is paid to the interaction of verbal and nonverbal elements in cartoons and memes, as well to similarities and differences in Ukrainian and Russian cartoons and memes depicting Yevgeny Prigoshin’s rebellion and his death
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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