Abstract
This paper focuses on the role of political satires in the modern information society. The information society sometimes makes communication biased and alienates certain people from the information required for democracy. Satire is capable of providing a multifaceted, ―multidimensional perspective. Satirical cartoons offer different aspects of an issue ―and make readers laugh at politicians, political events and even themselves. In my analysis, I rely considerably on the framing approach. This approach is derived from many aspects of schools. I used the political symbolism approach of Murray Edelman, to analyze political discourse.
For the purpose of investigating the role of political satires ,in particular this paper describes and categorizes the nature and the content of editorial cartoons and senryu (short poems) in the Asahi Shimbun from October 1, 2015 to August 3, 2016. In the content analysis this paper uses the “frame,“package” and“elements of signature ”of Gamson(1992).
In conclusion there seems to be little difference between political cartoons and senryus during the time considered, but politicians are more slightly more ridiculed in senryus.
