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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young is an American scholar. She is a professor of communication and political science at the University of Delaware and Director of the university's Center for Political Communication. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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She earned her Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania in 2007. She studied the effects of political satire on viewers' attitudes and behaviors and developed the "counterargument disruption model of political humor" to explain how humor reduces audience resistance to persuasive messages. [5] [6] Her 2020 book, Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States argues that liberals and conservatives prefer to create and consume different political aesthetics (e.g.; liberal ironic satire versus conservative outrage programming) due to underlying differences in the psychological traits of liberals and conservatives. [7] Her 2023 book, Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformation argues that social identity creates people's demand for identity-reinforcing misinformation. Wrong suggests that in the U.S., political mega-identities were cultivated by America's racial history (in particular following the Southern Strategy, Great Migration (African American) and party realignment of the late 1960s (see Sixth Party System), and later rewarded and reinforced by the profit motives of America's fragmented political media system. [8]

She is an improv comedian with ComedySportz Philadelphia and in 2018 produced a comedy talk show, Dr. Young Unpacks. [9] [10] She spoke at the Harvard Kennedy School. [11] and at the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation Forum [12] and delivered a TED (conference) Talk in 2020. [13]


Her work appeared in Vox . [14] Her interest in conspiracy theories grew from her husband becoming ill, as she explained in the Australian Broadcasting Commission radio program Conversations in June 2020, [15] and on a 2024 episode of Hidden Brain with Shankar Vedantam. [16]

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References

  1. ↑ "Dannagal G. Young, University of Delaware". The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. January 30, 2020. Archived from the original on May 29, 2024. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Political satire". UDaily. Archived from the original on July 28, 2024. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Delaware professor encourages media to put viewers needs over ratings". WHYY. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  4. ↑ "University of Delaware Center for Political Communication unveils new vision, goals and leadership". Newswise. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
  5. ↑ Goldthwaite Young, Dannagal (June 7, 2010). "Late-Night Comedy in Election 2000: Its Influence on Candidate Trait Ratings and the Moderating Effects of Political Knowledge and Partisanship". Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. 48: 1–22. doi:10.1207/s15506878jobem4801_1 . Retrieved October 12, 2024.
  6. ↑ Young, Dannagal Goldthwaite (March 19, 2008). "The Privileged Role of the Late-Night Joke: Exploring Humor's Role in Disrupting Argument Scrutiny". Media Psychology. 11: 119–142. doi:10.1080/15213260701837073 . Retrieved October 12, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States". Oxford University Press. October 24, 2019. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
  8. ↑ "MindCORE Lab". YouTube. October 12, 2024.
  9. ↑ Wasserman, Jacob (March 12, 2018). "University professor gets political with new Philadelphia talk show". The Review. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  10. ↑ "Sitting with Uncertainty". Hidden Brain. October 12, 2024. Retrieved October 12, 2024.
  11. ↑ "Epistemic Motivations, Political Identity, and Misperceptions about COVID and the 2020 Election". Shorenstein Center. April 22, 2021. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  12. ↑ "The Politics of Identity and Trust". YouTube. September 9, 2024. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
  13. ↑ "The psychological traits that shape your political beliefs". TED. May 20, 2020. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
  14. ↑ Young, Dannagal G. (May 15, 2020). "'I was a conspiracy theorist, too'". Vox . Archived from the original on June 8, 2024. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  15. ↑ Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National (June 2, 2020), Conspiracy theories and me, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, archived from the original on June 30, 2024, retrieved June 30, 2024
  16. ↑ Sitting with Uncertainty, Hidden Brain, September 30, 2024, retrieved October 10, 2024
  17. ↑ "Irony and Outrage". WHYY. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  18. ↑ Rosenberg, Paul (December 7, 2019). ""Irony and Outrage": How different — and how similar — are Fox News and Samantha Bee?". Salon. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  19. ↑ Rozansky, Michael (February 4, 2020). "'Irony and Outrage': Liberal Satire, Conservative Talk Shows". The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on June 8, 2024. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  20. ↑ Skeptic (November 28, 2023). "384. Dannagal Young — How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation". Skeptic. Archived from the original on September 6, 2024. Retrieved June 8, 2024.
  21. ↑ Cervi, Laura (December 2021). "Book review: A Crisis of Civility? Political Discourse and Its Discontents by Robert G. Boatright, Timothy J. Shaffer, Sarah Sobieraj, and Dannagal Goldthwaite Young". European Journal of Communication. 36 (6): 632–634. doi:10.1177/02673231211056862. ISSN   0267-3231. Archived from the original on September 6, 2024. Retrieved September 6, 2024.


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