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Project
Satire across borders: production, content, and audiences of pan-Arab news satire (FWOTM1113)
News satire has become ubiquitous in its popularity and widely
diffused in many countries and contexts. This project aims to deepen,
and expand, the burgeoning scholarship on news satire by looking at
the transnational processes that underlie the production, content and
consumption of pan-Arab news satire. The inherently transnational
nature of pan-Arab news satire in its production and
consumption—as it is often produced from diasporic vantage points,
and speaks to audiences across multiple political contexts as well as
to large diasporic communities—provides a rich platform to advance
our understanding of the complex place of news satire in
contemporary media environments. The proposed research aims to
fill a gap in the scholarship by (1) conceptualising the transnational
flows negotiated by contemporary news satire; (2) analysing how
these flows are articulated on the production and content levels (3)
investigating how (diasporic) audiences make sense of them. The
study draws on a number of qualitative research methods including:
interviews and focus groups, multimodal textual analysis, and photoelicitation methods. It includes two periods of on-site ethnographic
fieldwork among Arab diasporic communities in Berlin and Istanbul.
Finally, by centring cases beyond Western contexts the study aims to
build a more nuanced conception of the tensions and contestations
that underlie the practice of news satire.
diffused in many countries and contexts. This project aims to deepen,
and expand, the burgeoning scholarship on news satire by looking at
the transnational processes that underlie the production, content and
consumption of pan-Arab news satire. The inherently transnational
nature of pan-Arab news satire in its production and
consumption—as it is often produced from diasporic vantage points,
and speaks to audiences across multiple political contexts as well as
to large diasporic communities—provides a rich platform to advance
our understanding of the complex place of news satire in
contemporary media environments. The proposed research aims to
fill a gap in the scholarship by (1) conceptualising the transnational
flows negotiated by contemporary news satire; (2) analysing how
these flows are articulated on the production and content levels (3)
investigating how (diasporic) audiences make sense of them. The
study draws on a number of qualitative research methods including:
interviews and focus groups, multimodal textual analysis, and photoelicitation methods. It includes two periods of on-site ethnographic
fieldwork among Arab diasporic communities in Berlin and Istanbul.
Finally, by centring cases beyond Western contexts the study aims to
build a more nuanced conception of the tensions and contestations
that underlie the practice of news satire.
Date:1 Oct 2022 → Today
Keywords:News satire, Transnationalism, Diaspora
Disciplines:Political economy of communication, Media sociology, Digital media, Journalism studies, Media and communication theory