Work

Humour and comics for academic change and well-being

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Considering recent calls for change towards a more liveable tourism academia, we combined critical participatory action research with duoethnography to develop The Academic Line —a humorous comic project about academic life. We used traditional theories of humour to leverage the effectiveness of comics as communicative devices and explored how and to what extent our project promoted solidarity, reflexivity, well-being, and change. This study reveals our concrete commitment to fostering change within and potentially improving academia, and to experiment with a form of communication, which is still underexplored in the scholarly sphere but fruitfully applied in other contexts to raise awareness of and prompt discussion about crucially important issues.

Source: Annals of Tourism Research

DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2024.103862

Authors: Giovanna Bertella, Lucia Tomassini

Institutions: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences

Language: English

Topic: Comics and Graphic Narratives

Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,600

OpenAlex ID: W4403840146

FWCI: 16.67

Cites: 85

Cited by: 4

Related to: 10