TY - JOUR
T1 - Communicating urgency through humor
T2 - School Strike 4 Climate protest placards
AU - Hee, Matthew
AU - Jürgens, Anna Sophie
AU - Fiadotava, Anastasiya
AU - Judd, Karina
AU - Feldman, Hannah R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s). This article is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution — NonCommercial — NoDerivativeWorks 4.0 License.
PY - 2022/8/1
Y1 - 2022/8/1
N2 - Protest placards are an important part of School Strike 4 Climate (SS4C) protest culture and illustrate how protesters view, understand and share their environmental concerns. Many of the placards use humor to convey the messages of their creators. Bringing together science communication and humor studies, this paper examines the communicative functions of humor in Australian SS4C posters by asking to what extent protest signs can be understood as a vehicle of science communication. The paper reveals how humorous protest placards become the means of grassroots creativity, exploring bottom-up science communication in an ambiguous, but accessible and enjoyable form.
AB - Protest placards are an important part of School Strike 4 Climate (SS4C) protest culture and illustrate how protesters view, understand and share their environmental concerns. Many of the placards use humor to convey the messages of their creators. Bringing together science communication and humor studies, this paper examines the communicative functions of humor in Australian SS4C posters by asking to what extent protest signs can be understood as a vehicle of science communication. The paper reveals how humorous protest placards become the means of grassroots creativity, exploring bottom-up science communication in an ambiguous, but accessible and enjoyable form.
KW - Environmental communication
KW - Science communication: theory and models
KW - Visual communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85137303477&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.22323/2.21050202
DO - 10.22323/2.21050202
M3 - Article
SN - 1824-2049
VL - 21
JO - Journal of Science Communication
JF - Journal of Science Communication
IS - 5
M1 - A02
ER -