Humor at the Viña del Mar Festival (2000 - 2019): A barometer of the Chilean outburst?
Authors
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Andres Mendiburo-Seguel
Universidad Andrés Bello
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8486-6597
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Gonzalo Serrano
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9875-7241
Abstract
According to different Social Sciences and Humanities approaches, humor has distinctive social roles. Two of them give it a particular function: to present and highlight the relevant topics of the conjuncture and to serve as a way of acceptable aggression when abuse by elite. Based on this idea, carried out an emotional and thematic analysis of comic routines presented at the Viña del Mar Festival in Chile between 2000 and 2019. With this, we seek to determine if there was evidence in them of the social unrest that manifested in the country on October 18, 2019, through the so-called "social outbreak." The analysis showed that since 2000 there has been a systematic and statistically significant decrease in the presence of positive emotions and an increase in negative emotions, specifically anger, and that those negative emotions related to the presence of topics related to justice.
Keywords:
Humor, Chile, Social Outbreak, Comedians, EmotionsReferences
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