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The Necessity of Satire in Media Literacy: Stephen Colbert’s Use of Sophistic and Socratic Irony

By: Andrew C. Jones  
Open Access
|Oct 2018

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Language: English
Page range: 187 - 207
Submitted on: Jul 21, 2018
Accepted on: Aug 31, 2018
Published on: Oct 29, 2018
Published by: Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy and the Faculty of Law of Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

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