جایگاه طنز در مطبوعات امروز ایران نوشتة محمدمهدی فرقانی پردیس سیاسی

 
This paper deals with the status of satire in today’s Iranian print media. In this study, 16 distinctive satirists and caricaturists have been interviewed through in-depth questions. The troika theories of satire, the logic of dialogue, Mikhail Bakhtin’s carnival theory, and social responsibility theory shape the theoretical framework of this paper. The questions asked were within three general categories including: definition and nature of press satire, the relationship of press satire with the society and the media, and the challenges and future of print media satire. According to satirists, the most important application of press satire is its critical and journalistic role. For this reason it has been directly tied with power owners and contrary to Bakhtin’s theory, journalistic humor loses its critical function in a politically-closed atmosphere. The future of press satire is ambiguous because of the difference in the definitions provided of this concept by the society and satirists as well as undetermined red lines and emergence of social networks.