La guía de la sátira de The Rubberbandits: el absurdo y el comentario social en un entorno de hibridación de los medios.

Autores/as

  • Faye Mercier Media Studies, University of Amsterdam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2021-9984

Palabras clave:

Especificidad inter-media, sátira, comentario social, medios, absurdo, carnivalesco, foro cultural, The Rubberbandits

Resumen

Este artículo sostiene que, a través de un compromiso con la hibridación de medios, el dúo de comedia irlandés The Rubberbandits ha establecido un foro dinámico que tiene como objetivo restaurar la capacidad del público irlandés con el compromiso crítico social y político. Un elemento central de este proceso es la manera en que The Rubberbandits utiliza la comedia satírica como una herramienta fundamental que sirve de base para un foro cultural de este tipo y permite que los problemas sociales y políticos irlandeses relevantes se negocien a través de una variedad de medios. Dado que este foro cultural existe en diferentes medios, plataformas y formatos, este artículo propone analizar las diversas formas en que el dúo ha adaptado su estilo satírico a las demandas de estos diferentes medios, y qué implicaciones tiene este proceso de adaptación. Comenzando con un análisis de las funciones sociales y críticas de la comedia satírica de manera amplia, este artículo se centrará posteriormente en el tipo específico de comentario satírico de tipo social empleado por The Rubberbandits, prestando especial atención al papel del absurdo en su compromiso crítico con temas candentes a los que se enfrenta la sociedad irlandesa. Este artículo tiene como objetivo demostrar cómo funciona la sátira social en un entorno entre medios, y cómo los Rubberbandits han adaptado su formato específico de comentario social a las estructuras de las diferentes plataformas para seguir siendo efectivos, con las implicaciones que tiene esto para la crítica social y el compromiso político.

Biografía del autor/a

Faye Mercier, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam

Faye Mercier is a graduate of the Research Masters in Media Studies programme at the University of Amsterdam. With a specialisation in television and cross-media culture, her work focuses on the media industries of Ireland, Japan, and South Korea, paying particular attention to both the sociocultural implications and the socioeconomic resonances of various media content. Prior to her graduate studies she obtained a degree in Film Studies from Trinity College Dublin, where she was first introduced to the study of Irish media. In recent years she has analysed Brexit as a media phenomenon, paying particular attention to discussions and depictions of the “Irish Border Problem”. Alongside an interest in representations of Ireland on screen, she has also researched diverse topics such as K-Pop, K-Dramas, and reality television. 

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Publicado

17-03-2021

Cómo citar

Faye Mercier. (2021). La guía de la sátira de The Rubberbandits: el absurdo y el comentario social en un entorno de hibridación de los medios. Estudios Irlandeses, 16(1), 79–94. https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2021-9984