Satire in Merlinda Bobis’ Banana Heart Summer

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Yes, Minister: Satire in Information Systems Research

This paper explores the use of the alternative genre of satire in conjunction with conventional academic discourse in order to provide insight into information systems development and implementation in government. An outsourcing project for the development and implementation of a new payroll system for the New Zealand education sector provides the focus; this project was just one of a series of...

Subversive Satire: the Glasgow Verses

The Glasgow Verses constitutes a formal anomaly in terms of genesis, appearance and meaning. Discovered only in 1995, the verses are part of a larger text, the so-called Hunter Codex, a manuscript MaruliÊ wrote and dedicated to his friend Dmine PapaliÊ. Closer investigation revealed that this collection of poems had been entirely overlooked by traditional scholarship, and that it was neither ch...

Detecting Satire in Italian Political Commentaries

This paper presents computational work to detect satire/sarcasm in long commentaries on Italian politics. It uses the lexica extracted from the manual annotation based on Appraisal Theory, of some 30K word texts. The underlying hypothesis is that using this framework it is possible to precisely pinpoint ironic content through the deep semantic analysis of evaluative judgement and appreciation. ...

Automatic Recognition of Satire in Web Content

Irony and satire can be useful weapons in any communicator’s rhetorical arsenal. They provide a nuanced means for expressing critical sentiments and for openly exploring divisive subjects. However, the very subtlety that grants these devices their utility also lends to their greatest drawback: implied meanings are often lost on their intended audience. In textual communication this difficulty i...