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Exiled newsfluencers utilize online platforms like YouTube to employ satire as a discursive strategy, enabling them to sustain counter-publics, provide critical information, and preserve local identity when domestic journalism is silenced. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Investigate how an exiled newsfluencer utilizes satire as a discursive strategy to maintain counter-publics in authoritarian media environments.

August 30, 2026Journalism StudiesOpen Access

Satire in Exile: Exiled Newsfluencer’s use of Satire as a Discursive Strategy

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CTChun Hong TseUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison TDTomás DoddsLeiden University RSRosalynd SouthernUniversity of Liverpool

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Discourse analysis reveals how exiled newsfluencers employ multimodal satire to maintain counter-publics against authoritarian censorship, highlighting digital platforms as havens for critical...

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Investigate how an exiled newsfluencer utilizes satire as a discursive strategy to maintain counter-publics in authoritarian media environments.
Multimodal critical discourse analysis of 20 commentary videos published on YouTube by exiled Hong Kong newsfluencer Stephen Shiu in Taiwan.
Identified nine prominent satirical strategies: irony, exaggeration, parody, mock expertise, profanity, insult, metaphor, rumour, and personal anecdotes.
Demonstrated that exiled satire circumvents censorship to supply critical information, voices shared public frustration, and deploys local Cantonese profanity as political resistance.

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Tse et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a93f0ce6c1a8fb52e79d3dd https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2026.2695141

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Discourse analysis reveals how exiled newsfluencers employ multimodal satire to maintain counter-publics against authoritarian censorship, highlighting digital platforms as havens for critical...

Satire in Exile: Exiled Newsfluencer’s use of Satire as a Discursive Strategy

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Satire in Exile: Exiled Newsfluencer’s use of Satire as a Discursive Strategy

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