Saturday Night Research Articles

“Dead honky”—against technologies of (white) violence

In 1975, Saturday Night Live, a long-running sketch comedy television series, aired a sketch featuring Richard Pryor, a Black man, and Chevy Chase, a white man. During the sketch, several racial epithets were used for both Black people and white people, including the n-word. In this paper, I parallel the emotionalities displayed in that sketch to assert that as whiteness pretends to be innocent, flustered, and terrified, it nonetheless creates terror and violence. Critical whiteness studies (CWS) in the field of higher education fails to account for these technologies of violence that characterize whiteness and which whiteness employs. I bring a Black consciousness lens that asserts a critical narrative grounded in my own and in the intellectual, cultural, and psychic experiences of Blackness. From that space, I theorize technologies of (white) violence as enactments of: (1) malicious white terror; (2) rhetorical white innocence, mobilized through white contempt and white transmission; and, (3) pacifying white concession. Ultimately, I call for CWS to take up an analysis of technologies of (white) violence in its interrogation of the ways that whiteness operates in postsecondary education, but more so to commit to realizing the death of whiteness, taking up Pryor’s verbal effigy “dead honky.”

Sexual Partner Referral for HIV Testing Through Social Networking Platforms: Cross-sectional Study.

BackgroundMen who have sex with men (MSM) who undergo voluntary HIV counseling and testing (VCT) often report condomless anal sexual intercourse, having many sexual partners, and being exposed to risky sexual networks. Limited research has discussed the application of motivational interviewing and convenience referral platforms to facilitate the referral of sexual partners for HIV testing among MSM.ObjectiveThis study aimed to evaluate the effects of VCT referral by sexual partners through social networking platforms and the test results after elicited interviews with MSM; compare the characteristics and risk behaviors among MSM tested without referral, index subjects, and referred sexual partners; and explore unknown sexual affiliations through visualizing and quantifying the social network graph.MethodsThis was a cross-sectional study. Purposeful sampling was used to recruit index subjects from a community HIV screening station frequented by MSM in Taipei City on Friday and Saturday nights. Respondent-driven sampling was used to recruit sexual partners. Partner-elicited interviews were conducted by trained staff before VCT to motivate MSM to become index subjects and refer sexual partners via the Line app, or to disclose the accounts and profiles of sexual partners on relevant social networking platforms. Referred sexual partners received rapid HIV testing, and the recruitment process was repeated until leads were exhausted.ResultsAfter the interviews, 28.2% (75/266) of MSM were successfully persuaded to become index subjects in the first wave, referring 127 sexual partners via the Line app for rapid HIV testing and disclosing 40 sexual partners. The index subjects and tested sexual partners had more sexual partners (F2=3.83, P=.02), more frequent anal intercourse (F2=10.10, P<.001), and higher percentages of those who had not previously received HIV testing (χ21=6.1, P=.047) compared with MSM tested without referrals. The new HIV-seropositivity rate among tested sexual partners was 2.4%, which was higher than the rate in the other 2 groups. The social network analysis revealed the following 4 types of sexual affiliation: chain, Y, star, and complicated. Among the HIV-negative sexual partners, 26.9% (43/160) had sexual affiliations with HIV-positive nodes, and 40% (10/25) were untested sexual partners with a direct sexual affiliation with an HIV-positive node. Four transmission bridges were found in the network graph.ConclusionsPartner-elicited interviews can effectively promote referral for HIV testing and case identification via Line, and can clarify unknown sexual affiliations of MSM to facilitate the development of a tailored prevention program. Social network analysis is needed for an insightful understanding of the different network structures.

“(It) Shouldn’t Be Funny But You Can’t Help But Laugh”: Black Twitter, #TweetLikeThe1600s, and Black Humor Online

In May 2014, comedian Leslie Jones faced backlash after making a joke about slavery during an episode of Saturday Night Live. During the “Weekend Update” sketch of the show, Jones, a Black woman, emphasized that although she was single now, she would have been a hot commodity during slavery. She added that after being hooked up with “the best brother on the plantation” by her massa, she would be popping out “superbabies” every 9 months. Although the show is known for testing the limits of comedy and poking fun at everything, Jones was criticized for making light of such a serious topic. In early 2018, however, Black Twitter picked up right where Jones left off and slavery became a topic of amusement online. Using words, gifs, memes, and videos, users reimagined the lives of enslaved African Americans during the 1600s in a comical manner. This online exchange was marked by the #TweetLikeThe1600s hashtag and went in a series of directions. In what follows, I locate the hashtag in a longer tradition of Black humor as well as analyze subsequent discussions about who is allowed in on the joke. Beyond the jokes themselves, these smaller and supplementary discourses inform my engagement with the subject.

Tragedy plus Time: National Trauma and Television Comedy

Tragedy plus Time: National Trauma and Television Comedy

Incongruent Bodies

ABSTRACT This article explores the political humor behind Saturday Night Live’s presidential impressions and how the stakes of such humor are higher when the candidate is a woman. Drawing on theories of comic incongruity, I argue that SNL’s American presidents have “incongruent bodies”; that is, they challenge long-held assumptions about how power and leadership are to be visualized and embodied but ultimately maintain the patriarchal status quo. In the case of former candidate Hillary Clinton, however, what makes her incongruent with the role of the presidency is the simple fact of her being a woman. I argue that SNL’s Hillary Clinton characters, played by Amy Poehler and Kate McKinnon, foreground the basic contradiction of the woman candidate, offering an embodied critique on the gendering of power and leadership in America.

From COVID-19 Treatment to Miracle Cure

From COVID-19 Treatment to Miracle Cure

Alcohol Consumption by Italian and Spanish University Students in Relation to Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and to the Food Neophobia: A Pilot Study.

This work aimed to relate alcohol consumption with adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) and with food neophobia (FN) among Italian and Spanish university students. Volunteers (n = 194, 108 Italian and 86 Spanish), recruited at the La Sapienza University of Rome and the Catholic University of Murcia, filled in standardized questionnaires to evaluate alcohol consumption (AUDIT), FN (FN Scale: FNS), and adherence to the MD (MDS-14, MED-55, QueMD). In addition to the previously reported QueMD sub-score (aMED), a sub-score for non-typical MD foods (ntMED, carbonated and/or sugar-sweetened beverages (soft drinks), butter, margarine, or cooking cream, and manufactured sweets, pastries, and cakes) was evaluated. Italian females had higher MED-55 and FNS scores, and a lower AUDIT score than Spaniards (p < 0.01). Students who stayed with their family (resident) were more adherent to MD than those who moved away from home. Resident Italians consumed less beer, hard liquors, and cocktails than Spaniards on Saturday nights (p < 0.01). There were negative correlations between AUDIT and QueMD (R squared: 0.137, p < 0.05), and AUDIT and ntMED (R squared: 0.201, p < 0.01) in Spaniards, however, there was no relationship between AUDIT and other MD scores. In conclusion, this pilot study suggests that non-typical MD foods and Saturday night consumptions, related to being far from home, have a great impact on alcohol consumption.

How Not to Be an Expert

How <i>Not</i> to Be an Expert

Conversational Implicatures on Saturday Night Live Talk Show

Conversational implicature seems to be an everlasting concern in pragmatics for its wide-ranging investigation possibility. Applying Gricean’s principles, the present study examined the types of conversational implicatures found in the Saturday Night Live talk show. This research used a qualitative method with a pragmatic approach. The research data were collected from the utterances in Season 46 Episode 5 accessed from MBC's channel (www. saturday night live – NBC.COM). The result indicated that there were two types of conversational implicatures found in Saturday Night Live talk show namely: First, particularized conversational implicature, and second, generalized conversational implicature. We found that the utterances containing particularized implicature outnumbered the ones with generalized implicature. In our interpretation, the dominance of particularized implicature reflects the centrality of the particular context in producing and inferring utterances for meaningful and effective communication.

Княжьи сумерки. К 850-летию Андрея Боголюбского

The paper comes up with an adjustment of chronological evidence concerning the death of the Great Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky which allows determining the time of his death and establishing an historical and cultural memorial date. According to the oldest Hypatian and Laurentian Chronicles, the Prince was murdered in the year 6683 since the creation of the world, according to the First Novgorodian Chronicle — in 6682 (which corresponds to the years 1175 and 1174 C. E.). In the chronicle “Tale of the murder of Andrey Bogolyubsky” the time of the Prince`s death is defined as Saturday night which falls, on the one hand, on the eve of Ss. Peter and Paul feast day, i. e. June 28th, and, on the other hand, on the very day of Ss. Peter and Paul, i. e. June 29th. Since Ss. Peter and Paul feast fell on Saturday in the year 1174, but not in 1175, the historians came to the conclusion that Prince Andrey died in 1174, but not in 1175. The author ascertains that the chronicle data on the date of murder combine different types of evidence reflecting different variants of day reckoning: the “calendar” variant — day begins at midnight, and the “church-service” variant — day begins on an average six hours earlier, at sunset. A careful analysis of the “Tale” made it possible to conclude that the whole evidence is perfectly congruent in the hypothesis of evening twilight on the eve of Sunday as the time of Prince`s murder. According to the Old Russian manner of day reckoning the time of twilight could belong to Saturday June 28th (“calendar” day reckoning) as well as to Sunday June 29th (“church-service” day reckoning). In contemporary society it is “calendar” day reckoning which is in common use and thus the day June 28th 1175 of old style (Julian) corresponds to the day July 5th 1175 of new style (Gregorian) which is to become a historical and cultural date for the memory of Andrey Bogolyubsky.

MINAT MAHASANTRI UIN ANTASARI TERHADAP DISKURSUS MODERASI BERAGAMA (STUDI PADA KEGIATAN WAWASAN ISLAM DAN KEBANGSAAN)

Religious moderation is currently one of the most loved courses in the framework of religious harmony. Even now, Ministry of Religion has been launching the Religious Moderation House program in all Islamic religious colleges in Indonesia. This paper discussed the program of activities carried out by Antasari State Islamic University of Banjarmasin to support the government program by instilling the values of religious moderation in all new students. This study applied a qualitative descriptive method with content analysis techniques. The sample in this study were questions posed by Mahasantri during the Islamic and National Insights material every Saturday night at Ma'had Jami'ah UIN Antasari Banjarmasin. The results showed that there were seven themes that most learners’ attraction, namely 1). diversity and tolerance, as many as 91 or 24.53% questions, 2). Synergy and the Importance of Islamic and National Insights, 54 or 14.56% of questions, 3). Radicalism, Terrorism, Fanaticism, 48 or 12.94% questions, 4). Nationalism and Love for the Motherland, 35 or 9.43% of questions, 5). Islamic State and Leaders, 20 or 5.39% of questions, 6). Islamic law in inter-religious relations, 25 or 6.74% questions, and 7). Conflict and Blasphemy, 16 or 4.31% questions. Tolerance and diversity were the most frequently asked questions. Thus, although this lesson carried the theme of Islamic insight and nationalism, this learning tent to be a space for students to ask questions and discuss tolerance which was an important element or part in religious moderation.

Post-war British Cinema: Constructing an Imagined Community Through National Cinema

Benedict Andersons masterpiece Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism has influenced the discipline of national cinema greatly since its publication . This paper aims to decode British national cinema from the late 1940s to early 1960s to rediscover the situation of British society at that time through Andersons conception of imagined communities. Through reading closely on two representative British films A Matter of Life and Death (Emeric Pressburge, 1946) and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960), the paper portrays the great changes happened in Britain from the end of the the Second World War to the beginning of the 1960s.

The Meaning of Carnival Expel Epidemic Covid-19: Case Study Community Kelenteng Hian Thian Sian Tee and Hok Tek Bio in Welahan Jepara Central Java

This paper is based on writings that are description Khonghucu people in Kelenteng Hian Thian Sian Tee (Dewa Langit) and Hok Tek Bio (Dewa Bumi) at Covid-19 era in Welahan, Jepara City, Central Java. This research based on interview and participative, observation, and literature by approach description analysis. Result, effort people Khonghucu pandemic covid-19 era heirloom carnival purpose expel the plague (pagebluk covid-19) to be comfortable safe sosial at local and national. Carnival every Saturday night until April-November 2020 and every two weeks until Desember 2020 until now. Carnival by surround the Tionghoa village and Kelenteng so far 2 kilometers. Start and finish carnival in Kelenteng Hian Thian Siang Tee Gang Pinggir Pasar No.4. This kelenteng exist 5 kimsin (Kong Co Hiang Thian Siang Tee/Patung Dewa), referensi 120 medical prescription China vertion, a sword (pedang Tiongkok), bamboo fortune telling (ciamsi) by 49 poem, Po Kiam Hip lauw (ashtray, tempat abu), a volume of medical books (tjioe hwat). The meaning ornaments for carnival black flag, sword, rupang dewa, incense (dupa), and hio.

Saturday Night Candidates: Comedic Brands on Saturday Night Live During the 2016 Presidential Election

Saturday Night Candidates: Comedic Brands on Saturday Night Live During the 2016 Presidential Election

A Telehealth Explosion: Using Lessons from the Pandemic to Shape the Future of Telehealth Regulation

From board rooms, to classrooms, to Saturday Night Live skits, the video conferencing app Zoom became a seemingly overnight sensation as a way to connect while businesses were shuttered and individuals were forced to stay at home when the coronavirus pandemic erupted in the United States in March 2020. From 10 million daily users in December 2019 to over 200 million daily users by March 2020, the company founded in 2011 became a market leader as the country tried to figure out how to continue business as usual—to the extent possible—during the global pandemic. While hospitals prepared for the onslaught of patients suffering from COVID–19, many physicians and physician offices around the country not tasked with treating patients suffering from COVID–19 shuttered their doors along with other businesses and contemplated ways in which they could still render necessary care to their patients.4 How could physicians advise or diagnose patients who exhibited coronavirus symptoms without exposing other patients to coronavirus? How could physicians who were themselves immunocompromised or at special risk if they were to contract COVID–19 continue to treat their patients? How could patients feel comfortable seeking care for non-COVID–19 related conditions without feeling like seeking such care could expose them to the virus? In short, providers were facing many of the same dilemmas that other businesses have been facing during the global pandemic, and just like the 200 million fellow Americans who turned to Zoom, the health care industry likewise looked to technology.

Friends and family matter Most: a trend analysis of increasing e-cigarette use among Irish teenagers and socio-demographic, personal, peer and familial associations

BackgroundE-cigarette ever-use and current-use among teenagers has increased worldwide, including in Ireland.MethodsWe use data from two Irish waves (2015, 2019) of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD) to investigate gender and teenage e-cigarette use (n = 3421 16-year-olds). Using chi-square analyses, we report changes in e-cigarette ever-use, current-use, and associated variables. Using multivariable logistic regression, we analyse the increase in e-cigarette use and socio-demographic, personal, peer and familial associations, focusing on gender differences.ResultsE-cigarette ever-use increased from 23% in 2015 to 37% in 2019, and current-use from 10 to 18%. Compared with 2015, the odds in 2019, of becoming both an e-cigarette ever-user and current-user, were significantly higher for girls than boys (ever-use: AOR 2.67 vs 2.04; current-use: AOR 3.11 vs 1.96). Smoking and e-cigarette use are linked but never-smokers who try e-cigarettes rose significantly from 33 to 67% and those using e-cigarettes to quit smoking decreased significantly from 17 to 3%. Almost two-thirds of respondents (66%) in 2019 said that their reason for trying e-cigarettes was “out of curiosity”. Peer smoking is significantly associated with likelihood of e-cigarette ever-use (AOR 6.52) and current-use (AOR 5.45). If “Most/All friends smoke”, odds were significantly higher for boys than for girls (ever-use AOR 7.07 vs 6.23; current-use AOR 5.90 vs 5.31). Less parental monitoring is significantly associated with greater e-cigarette ever-use (AOR 3.96) and current-use (4.48), and having parents who usually don’t know where their child is on Saturday nights was also associated with significantly higher odds for boys than for girls (ever-use AOR 5.42 vs 3.33; current-use AOR 5.50 vs 3.50).ConclusionRespondents had significantly higher odds of being e-cigarette ever- and current-users in 2019 compared with 2015. Use is higher among boys but girls are increasingly at risk. Two-thirds had never smoked cigarettes at first e-cigarette use; two-thirds used out of curiosity but few (3%) for smoking cessation. The most prominent risk factors for e-cigarette use were peer- and parent-related, especially so for boys. Interventions that take account of friend and family influences may provide mechanisms for preventing an increasing risk of nicotine addiction.

Rare health conditions 52: sick sinus syndrome, Saturday Night Fever, empowerment and engaging with local communities

The purpose of this series is to briefly highlight a range of rare health conditions. Rare health conditions are those that affect no more and usually fewer than 1 person in every 2000. Many healthcare assistants and nurses will encounter some of these conditions, given the high number of them. This 52nd article will explore two of these conditions, sick sinus syndrome and Saturday Night Fever, with a short discussion on empowering people.

Amusing Abusers and Humourless Survivors: Analysing the Role of Comedy in Media Representations of Sexual Violence

This article reflects on the importance of comedy when considering media engagements with sexual abuse themes. This approach is informed by how closely the study of humour is rooted in the analysis of power relations, with comic theorists, both historical and contemporary, grounding the work.The comic figures of both the child sex (CS) abuser and the sexual violence survivor are first identified, before exploring what exactly about these tropes evoke laughter, and what this means for wider conceptions of interpersonal abuse and victimology.&#x0D; In analysing examples of CS abuser themed British and American comedy, animated adult comedies such as Family Guy (1999-present) and Monkey Dust (2003-2005) are considered in the context of early 2000s anxieties towards the suburban dirty old man and online child safety. In the case of the sexual violence survivor, Saturday Night Live’s 1993 ‘Is It Date Rape?’ sketch is considered within the context of 1990s anxieties regarding feminist campus politics, and is paralleled to the mid-2010s media panic surrounding British and American university students and trigger warnings through examples including The Simpson’s 2017 ‘Caper Chase’ episode and early to mid-2010s online academic polemics on the humourless feminist, such as Mark Fisher’s ‘Exiting The Vampire Castle’ (2013) and Jack Halberstam’s ‘You are Triggering Me!’ (2014). The article concludes by considering the changing consensuses for sexual violence themed humour in the Me Too era through the 2018 episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005-present) ‘Times Up For The Gang.’

Late Night with Trump: Political Humor and the American Presidency

Late Night with Trump: Political Humor and the American Presidency

Late Night with Trump: Political Humor and the American Presidency

Late Night with Trump: Political Humor and the American Presidency