The Role of Satirical Political Platforms in Shaping Societal Political Awareness
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56830/IJHMPS06202404Keywords:
political awareness, satirical programs, media, media misinformationAbstract
The current study aims to uncover the reality of satirical political platforms and the role of the media in developing awareness of citizens' political participation based on contemporary political theories from the perspective of students themselves. The results of the first question showed that the computational averages of the reality of the media's role in developing awareness of political participation ranged from 3.67-4.28 to their high level. The results of the second question were shown: The existence of statistically significant differences attributable to the sex variable and to the interests of females and the absence of statistically significant differences depending on the macro variable and the school year. The results of question III showed that the computational averages of the responses of the study sample individuals to the paragraphs of the challenges facing the media in developing awareness of political participation ranged from one to another. (3.80-4.14) and its high level, and the most prominent sources on which the widespread satirical programmes relied as well as the Joe Shaw programme relied on mixed sources in the first place. The study showed that the study programmes took the opposing trend in their coverage of political subjects in proportion (25%), highlighting the media trends used by both Clear Jamming and Joe Shaw in their coverage of political topics is the framework of economic consequences, while Al-Suleit's news programme focused on using the framework of political conflict.
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