Protecting ‘Sacred Cows’: A Comparative Study of the Factors Influencing Political Cartoonists

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Media Watch Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI:10.15655/mw_2021_v12i2_160147

Ayesha Binte Ashfaq, Joseph Russomanno

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Political cartooning is an influential medium that can be a significant indicator of the democratic health of a country. However, understanding the factors influencing and restraining political cartoonists has been neglected within political communication scholarship across the world for decades. Cartoonists globally cherish the level of freedom possessed by their American counterparts. Cartoonists in Pakistan are among those. Based on this assumption, this article investigates the factors that influence political cartoonists, including any filters through which their drawings pass before publication. Therefore, in-depth interviews of political cartoonists from Pakistan and the United States have been conducted under the umbrella of a model suggested by Gamson and Modgiliani (1989). This study compares cartooning in the ostensibly free environment in the United States and the visibly restricted atmosphere in Pakistan to see how the dynamics of free speech in political cartooning are changing. While the study reveals some largely predictable differences between Pakistan and the United States, there are some remarkable similarities.

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保护“神牛”：影响政治漫画家因素的比较研究

政治漫画是一种有影响力的媒介，可以成为一个国家民主健康状况的重要指标。然而，几十年来，对影响和制约政治漫画家的因素的理解在世界政治传播学界一直被忽视。全球漫画家都珍视美国漫画家所拥有的自由。巴基斯坦的漫画家也在其中。基于这一假设，本文调查了影响政治漫画家的因素，包括他们的作品在出版前通过的任何过滤器。因此，在Gamson和Modgiliani（1989）提出的模式下，对巴基斯坦和美国的政治漫画家进行了深入采访。这项研究比较了美国表面上自由的环境下的漫画创作和巴基斯坦明显受限的氛围下的漫画作品，以了解政治漫画中言论自由的动态是如何变化的。虽然这项研究揭示了巴基斯坦和美国之间一些基本上可以预测的差异，但也有一些显著的相似之处。

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