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本文探讨了幽默与人道主义在吸引北方受众关注全球南方贫困问题方面的交集。文章分析了批判人道主义实践和非洲代表性的诙谐社交媒体活动，特别是 YouTube 上的 What's Up Africa (WUA)、YouTube 上的 Radi-Aid、Tumblr 上的 Humanitarians of Tinder 和 Instagram 上的 Barbie Savior。通过 "反向流"，该研究展示了幽默和立场是如何影响接受的。尤其是 WUA 以非洲黑人为中心的喜剧，凸显了种族在发展话语中经常被忽略的作用，挑战了人道主义的白人制度核心。这些洞察力揭示了权力动态，并邀请学术界进一步探究喜剧人道主义批评的变革潜力。
Laughing from the Outside-In: Considering ‘What's Up Africa’ as an(other) humorous humanitarian digilantism
This article examines the intersection of humour and humanitarianism in engaging Northern audiences with global Southern poverty issues. It analyses witty social media campaigns that critique humanitarian practices and Africa’s representation, notably What’s Up Africa (WUA) on YouTube, Radi-Aid on YouTube, Humanitarians of Tinder on Tumblr and Barbie Savior on Instagram. Using ‘contraflow’, it shows how humour and positionality shape reception. WUA’s Black African-centric comedy, particualrly, highlights the often-underexplored role of race in development discourse, challenging the White institutional core of humanitarianism. These insights reveal power dynamics and invite further academic inquiry into the transformative potential of comedic humanitarian critique.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.
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