Sports satirical cartoons on Facebook and its relationship to the growth of sports fanaticism among the public:

Document Type : Original Article

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Lecturer, Department of Journalism and Publishing, Faculty of Mass Communication - Al-Azhar University

Abstract

Social networks, especially Facebook, have witnessed the spread of satirical cartoons, and formed a wide audience of followers and interacting with these cartoons, and due to the increasing growth of satirical cartoons on Facebook in recent years, in addition to the multiplicity of forms and contents of these cartoons, and the continuous and increasing interaction of Facebook users with These pages, the current study seeks to analyze sports satirical cartoons on Facebook, and to reveal the relationship between public exposure to these satirical sports cartoons and the growth of the phenomenon of sports intolerance. Content analysis and questionnaire based on a sample consisting of "450"idividual ​​from the audience of users of these pages. The study concluded to a number of results as follow: That the two pages under study - they used sarcastic and ridiculous terms and external words in their commentary on the sports satirical cartoons, The results also showed that the effects of the respondents' exposure to the satirical sports pages were mostly negative, and this was evident in the respondents ’feeling of joy in defeating their competing teams, introducing the effects of the respondents’ exposure to the satirical sports drawings and other effects that express sports intolerance among the respondents...

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