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List of Publications by Department for the Academic Year Satirical Writing in Specialized Arabic Media Sites

Abstract

Abstract Amid the great decline in the ceiling of freedom in the Arab countries where the media confronts a constantly deterioration situation, as stated in the 2018 report by “Reporters Without Borders “,satirical journalism seems to be a refuge for the writers to criticize their regimes indirectly and a means to avoid arrest and imprisonment. As the humor and irony in the golden age of the newspapers, were a space to express the forbidden and to state an opposition to the authority, the Internet has allowed the emergence of several media sites that provide “inaccurate and false news” on purpose to sarcastically construct the political and social reality in the Arab world. Most of these satirical Arabic media sites have stopped, while the few that remained on the Net, ended up spreading "rumors” to several media outlets, thus propagating these rumors on the social networks as “fact news”. This study aims to examine the current status of satirical Arabic media sites and their writing frameworks through the AlHudood.Net model, to identify the topics most addressed and the techniques adopted to deal with them. It is important to take into consideration the potential of these sites to mislead the uninformed reader at a time of the rapid spread of information and lack of scrutiny. The question remains: To what extent do these sites use satirical and comic writing in their pages to paint a picture of Arab reality with the aim of moving towards a better future or "Towards A Future" as the slogan AlHudood.Net says? Or is the sarcasm used just a means of entertainment?

Author(s)

Iman Alaywan

Journal/Conference Information

Realite et creation en Sciences Humaines,Conference Type: International, Organized By: Beirut Arab University, Proceeding Format: Print editions, Conference Date: 06/25/2019,