Jonas Nicolaï

Jonas Nicolaï is a doctoral candidate at the University of Antwerp, Department of Communication Sciences. His work investigates the role of television news satire as an alternative form of journalism and a resource for public engagement. Specifically, his dissertation highlights news satire in the Dutch speaking region of the Netherlands and Flanders, and brings together the fields of humor studies, journalism studies, and discourse studies. Forthcoming publications by Jonas Nicolaï zoom in on news satire’s reception among journalistic actors, and the role of emotion, subjectivity and humor as novel forms of journalistic storytelling.