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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Humor1
Interpersonal Relationship1
Leadership Effectiveness1
Military Personnel1
Music1
Video Technology1
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Kairos: A Journal of…1
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Carter, Geoffrey1
Williamson, Bill1
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Journal Articles1
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Diogenes, Dogfaced Soldiers, and Deployment Music Videos
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Carter, Geoffrey; Williamson, Bill – Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2010
This webtext explores the cynical/kynical humor of soldier videos, suggesting that amateur videos paradoxically both undercut authority and honor effective leaders, both make light of and also publicly reveal deployment hardships, both distance the performers from military groupthink and celebrate unit camaraderie.
Descriptors: Humor, Music, Video Technology, Military Personnel