The Practical Joke as a News Category in Victorian Newspapers
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
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| Description | The presentation documents the position of the practical joke at the boundary between a narrated personal story and a brief news item, both having the same narrative structure based on chronology (i.e., before the appearance of the inverted pyramid). The practical joke is interpreted as a news category through which a popular, tabloid-style agenda could find its way into a broadsheet, yet allowing for a detached critical evaluation manifesting one's own social and moral superiority. The data for analysis is based on articles from the 19th century British newspaper The Times. |