The Country Used to Be Hanging in the Air, It Is Now Floating on Water… : Thematic Analysis of Online Jokes Related to April 2019 Flash Flooding

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PARSAIYAN SEYYEDEH FAHIMEH

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Journal: NEW MEDIA STUDIES Year:2019 | Volume:5 | Issue:18 Page(s): 285-315

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The Country Used to Be Hanging in the Air, It Is Now Floating on Water… : Thematic Analysis of Online Jokes Related to April 2019 Flash Flooding

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PARSAIYAN SEYYEDEH FAHIMEH | Issue Writer Certificate

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Disaster jokesQ1

Flash floodingQ1

Social networking sitesQ1

Qualitative thematic analysisQ2

Political-critical jokesQ1

Religious jokesQ1

Gendered jokesQ1

Neutral jokesQ1

Abstract

In recent years, production and dissemination of jokes related to tragic and non-tragic events have turned into a social phenomenon. The reasons for the production, the nature, contents, functions, and repercussions of such a discourse definitely need in-depth sociological and anthropological analysis and scrutiny; among others. Focusing on a recent catastrophe, the present study aims at analyzing jokes related to April 2019 widespread Flash flooding in Iran. The corpus consisted of 100 jokes collected from Social networking sites. Through adopting Qualitative thematic analysis, the jokes’ contents were coded and then categorized. The findings reveal that the flooding resulted in production of jokes with political-critical, religious, gendered, and neutral themes. In other words, a large number of jokes were not neutral and based on the Iranians’ lived experiences and backgrounds contained socio-political and ideological meanings.

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PARSAIYAN, SEYYEDEH FAHIMEH. (2019). The Country Used to Be Hanging in the Air, It Is Now Floating on Water… : Thematic Analysis of Online Jokes Related to April 2019 Flash Flooding. NEW MEDIA STUDIES, 5(18 ), 285-315. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/264587/en

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PARSAIYAN SEYYEDEH FAHIMEH. The Country Used to Be Hanging in the Air, It Is Now Floating on Water… : Thematic Analysis of Online Jokes Related to April 2019 Flash Flooding. NEW MEDIA STUDIES[Internet]. 2019;5(18 ):285-315. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/264587/en

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SEYYEDEH FAHIMEH PARSAIYAN, “The Country Used to Be Hanging in the Air, It Is Now Floating on Water… : Thematic Analysis of Online Jokes Related to April 2019 Flash Flooding,” NEW MEDIA STUDIES, vol. 5, no. 18 , pp. 285–315, 2019, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/264587/en

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