Rebecca Krefting's Making Connections

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Rebecca Krefting (2014), “an Associate Professor of American Studies, affiliate faculty to Gender Studies, and Director of the Media and Film Studies Program” (Skidmore), wrote an article called “Making Connections.” Krefting (2014) explains the connections between comedy and people, listing the reasons the world can build “Cultural Citizenship” through “charged humor” (p. 17-18) Krefting describes the feeling of belonging in a family, workplace, social scenes through charged humor, which is humor that raises awareness and leads to social change. However, not everyone does belong because “charged humor” makes people have different interests, which leads everyone to certain paths in life. This is an example of what Krefting describes as “Cultural

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