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{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}'''Dannagal Goldthwaite Young''' is an American scholar. She is a professor of communication and political science at the [[University of Delaware]] and Director of the university's Center for Political Communication.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-30 |title=Dannagal G. Young, University of Delaware |url=https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/lecture/dannagal-g-young-university-of-delaware/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania |language=en-US |archive-date=May 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240529095423/https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/lecture/dannagal-g-young-university-of-delaware/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Political satire |url=http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2012/jan/young-political-satire-010512.html |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=UDaily |archive-date=July 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240728154714/https://www1.udel.edu/udaily/2012/jan/young-political-satire-010512.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Delaware professor encourages media to put viewers needs over ratings |url=https://whyy.org/articles/delaware-professor-encourages-media-put-viewers-needs-ratings/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=WHYY |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=University of Delaware Center for Political Communication unveils new vision, goals and leadership |url=https://www.newswise.com/articles/university-of-delaware-center-for-political-communication-unveils-new-vision-goals-and-leadership |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=Newswise |language=en-US}}</ref>
She earned her Ph.D. from [[University of Pennsylvania]] in 2007. She studied the effects of political satire on viewers' attitudes and behaviors and developed the "counterargument disruption model of political humor" to explain how humor reduces audience resistance to persuasive messages. <ref>{{cite journal|access-date=2024-10-12 |date=2010-06-07 |language=en-US |title=Late-Night Comedy in Election 2000: Its Influence on Candidate Trait Ratings and the Moderating Effects of Political Knowledge and Partisanship |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15506878jobem4801_1 |journal=Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media|doi=10.1207/s15506878jobem4801_1 |last1=Goldthwaite Young |first1=Dannagal |volume=48 |pages=1–22 }}</ref> <ref>{{cite journal|access-date=2024-10-12 |date=2008-03-19 |language=en-US |title=The Privileged Role of the Late-Night Joke: Exploring Humor's Role in Disrupting Argument Scrutiny |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15213260701837073/ |journal=Media Psychology|doi=10.1080/15213260701837073 |last1=Young |first1=Dannagal Goldthwaite |volume=11 |pages=119–142 }}</ref> Her 2020 book, <i>Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States </i>argues that liberals and conservatives prefer to create and consume different political aesthetics (e.g.; liberal ironic satire versus conservative outrage programming) due to underlying differences in the psychological traits of liberals and conservatives.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2024-10-12 |date=2019-10-24 |language=en-US |title=Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/37376 |website=Oxford University Press}}</ref> Her 2023 book, <i> Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformation</i> argues that social identity creates people's demand for identity-reinforcing misinformation. <i> Wrong</i> suggests that in the U.S., political mega-identities were cultivated by America's racial history (in particular following the [[Southern Strategy]], [[Great Migration (African American)]] and party realignment of the late 1960s (see [[Sixth Party System]]), and later rewarded and reinforced by the profit motives of America's fragmented political media system.<ref>{{cite web|date=2024-10-12 |language=en-US |title=MindCORE Lab |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rQ9xeBTMck |website=YouTube}}</ref>
She is an improv comedian with [[ComedySportz]] Philadelphia and in 2018 produced a comedy talk show, ''Dr. Young Unpacks''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wasserman |first=Jacob |date=2018-03-12 |title=University professor gets political with new Philadelphia talk show |website=The Review |url=https://udreview.com/university-professor-gets-political-new-philadelphia-talk-show/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |language=en-US}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|date=2024-10-12 |title=Sitting with Uncertainty |website=Hidden Brain|url=https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/sitting-with-uncertainty/ |access-date=2024-10-12 |language=en-US}}</ref> She spoke at the [[Harvard Kennedy School]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-04-22 |title=Epistemic Motivations, Political Identity, and Misperceptions about COVID and the 2020 Election |url=https://shorensteincenter.org/epistemic-motivations-d-young-april-2021-2/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Shorenstein Center |language=en-US}}</ref> and at the [[American Board of Internal Medicine]] Foundation Forum <ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-09-09|title=The Politics of Identity and Trust|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VB1zld09eg |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=YouTube |language=en-US}}</ref> and delivered a [[TED (conference)]] Talk in 2020. <ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-20|title=The psychological traits that shape your political beliefs|url=https://www.ted.com/talks/dannagal_g_young_the_psychological_traits_that_shape_your_political_beliefs?subtitle=en |access-date=2024-10-10 |website=TED |language=en-US}}</ref>
Her work appeared in ''[[Vox (website)|Vox]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Young |first=Dannagal G. |date=2020-05-15 |title='I was a conspiracy theorist, too' |url=https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/5/15/21258855/coronavirus-covid-19-conspiracy-theories-cancer |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |language=en-US |archive-date=June 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608155032/https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/5/15/21258855/coronavirus-covid-19-conspiracy-theories-cancer |url-status=live }}</ref> Her interest in conspiracy theories grew from her husband becoming ill, as she explained in the [[Australian Broadcasting Commission]] radio program ''[[Conversations (radio program)|Conversations]]'' in June 2020, <ref>{{Citation | author1=Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National | title=Conspiracy theories and me | publication-date=2020-06-02 | publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/239410896 | access-date=30 June 2024 | archive-date=June 30, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240630124657/https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/239410896 | url-status=live }}</ref> and on a 2024 episode of Hidden Brain with [[Shankar Vedantam]].  <ref>{{Citation | title=Sitting with Uncertainty| publication-date=2024-09-30 | publisher=Hidden Brain | url=https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/sitting-with-uncertainty/ | access-date=2024-10-10}}</ref>
== Publications ==
=== As author ===
* {{cite book |last=Young |first=Dannagal Goldthwaite |title=Irony and Outrage |date=2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=978-0-19-091308-3 |publication-place=New York, NY, United States of America}}.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Irony and Outrage |url=https://whyy.org/episodes/irony-and-outrage/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=WHYY |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rosenberg |first=Paul |date=2019-12-07 |title="Irony and Outrage": How different — and how similar — are Fox News and Samantha Bee? |url=https://www.salon.com/2019/12/07/irony-and-outrage-how-different-and-how-similar-are-fox-news-and-samantha-bee/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Salon |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rozansky |first=Michael |date=2020-02-04 |title='Irony and Outrage': Liberal Satire, Conservative Talk Shows |url=https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/danna-young-irony-outrage-liberal-satire-conservative-talk-shows/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania |language=en-US |archive-date=June 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608155644/https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/danna-young-irony-outrage-liberal-satire-conservative-talk-shows/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* {{cite book |last=Young |first=Dannagal Goldthwaite |title=Wrong |date=2023-10-17 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=978-1-4214-4775-9 |publication-place=Baltimore}} <ref>{{Cite web |last=Skeptic |date=2023-11-28 |title=384. Dannagal Young — How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation |url=https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/dannagal-young-how-media-politics-identity-drive-appetite-for-misinformation/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Skeptic |language=en |archive-date=September 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906023056/https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/dannagal-young-how-media-politics-identity-drive-appetite-for-misinformation/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
=== As editor ===
* {{Citation |author1= |first= |title=Breaking Boundaries: In Political Entertainment Studies |publication-date=2013 |editor-last=Young |editor-first=Dannagal G. |editor-last2=Gray |editor-first2=Jonathan |publisher=USC Annenberg Press |isbn=978-1-62517-175-7 |last2= |first2=}}
* {{Cite book |title=A Crisis of Civility?: Political Discourse and Its Discontents |date=2019 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-05196-5 |editor-last=Boatright |editor-first=Robert G. |location=New York, NY |editor-last2=Shaffer |editor-first2=Timothy J. |editor-last3=Sobieraj |editor-first3=Sarah |editor-last4=Young |editor-first4=Dannagal Goldthwaite}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cervi |first=Laura |date=December 2021 |title=Book review: A Crisis of Civility? Political Discourse and Its Discontents by Robert G. Boatright, Timothy J. Shaffer, Sarah Sobieraj, and Dannagal Goldthwaite Young |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02673231211056862 |journal=European Journal of Communication |language=en |volume=36 |issue=6 |pages=632–634 |doi=10.1177/02673231211056862 |issn=0267-3231 |access-date=September 6, 2024 |archive-date=September 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906023048/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02673231211056862 |url-status=live }}</ref>
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://whyy.org/episodes/wrong-why-people-believe-misinformation/ "'Wrong:' Why People Believe Misinformation"] - WHYY,  October 27, 2023
* [https://www.npr.org/2024/05/24/g-s1-491/rigged-what-can-go-wrong-when-a-word-becomes-linked-with-a-political-identity "Dannagal Young on how 'rigged' came to define a political identity"] : NPR, May 24, 2024
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