Humor as a Tool of Analysis: Political Cartoons and Columns in Egyptian Newspapers | ||
| المجلة العربية لبحوث الاعلام والاتصال | ||
| Article 8, Volume 2018, Issue 20, March 2018, Pages 2-14 PDF (627.62 K) | ||
| Document Type: بحوث علمیة متخصصة فی مجال الاعلام والاتصال. | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jkom.2018.108578 | ||
| Author | ||
| Sara S. Elmaghraby | ||
| ,Ph.D. in Journalism ,Faculty of Mass Communication ,Cairo University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Humor helps understand social and political behavior and it is not common among scholars in Egypt and the Arab world. This paper aims at analyzing Humor in Egyptian Newspaper cartoons and columns in order to investigate the use of Humor Techniques in the Egyptian Press. It uses Humor as a tool of analysis that provides the researcher with qualitative data. Using a 9-coding scheme, this paper answers the questions of the themes of the humor, its content, its target and its aim and mainly its techniques. The results of this paper reveal a wide use of humor techniques among Egyptian cartoonists and columnists in different Egyptian newspapers as well a variety of themes, content, targets, and aims. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Egyptian press; political cartoons; columns; humor analysis; the theory of humor | ||
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