Elections in Caricature of Egyptian Printed Newspaper: A Case Study of 2014 Presidential Egyptian Elections.

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Teacher of Journalism- mass Communication Department- Faculty of Arts - Ain Shams University

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      Cartoon elements play a role in creating and presenting the image to communicate a compelling message regarding a political or social issue. Newspapers and magazines use satire and sarcastic caricature to portray government policies and important societal and political events. One caricature may convey multiple intensive complex messages. Political events like elections are occasions for cartoonists to become creative and innovative, seek to highlight hidden discourses and sociopolitical stances in a humorous way. Analysis of semiology, being a key element applied to signs, especially cartoons, and creating meanings that relate to socio-cultural and personal connections in the second level of meaning which is connotation (Wesam, 2020,p.3).  So present study focuses on how the caricature represents the picture of the 2014  Egyptian presidential election. The sample selected for this study consists of the political cartoons and their content of election-related messages that were published from  May 1st , 2014, the starting day of the nomination process, until June 10th , 2014, the day when the final results were officially announced. A comparison study between governmental & private newspapers. The study argues that governmental journals are more interested in publishing caricatures,  caricatures adopt the opposite view towards 2014 elections, humorous was the most way cartoonists use to express their

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