Ridicule and rapture: The discursive politics of humor in pandemic Norway
Published online on February 25, 2026
Abstract
Discourse & Society, Ahead of Print.
This article examines how political humor on Norwegian Twitter (X) functioned as democratic boundary work, delineating symbolic divisions between citizens and political elites. Drawing on Chantal Mouffe’s theory of agonistic pluralism and employing a ...
This article examines how political humor on Norwegian Twitter (X) functioned as democratic boundary work, delineating symbolic divisions between citizens and political elites. Drawing on Chantal Mouffe’s theory of agonistic pluralism and employing a ...