Typology of Iranians’ Virtual Satire with a Concentration on Satire Content in Corona Virus Outbreak Era

Humor, both as a defensive mechanism and as a literary genre, expresses a desire to channel a common worrying issue or a hidden energy in a person. Humor can be divided into different categories, but in practice these categories are combined. Today, the space for publishing critical-political content without a fun and commercial role has become narrower in the popular mediums, however there are traces of criticism and political rhetoric found in this entertaining and commercial content. A common cultural base and understanding is one of the frames for humor existence so this interdimensional study concentrates on the role of culture in shaping contents and also with a communicational approach, looks into satire as a carrier of various messages. In this article, with an attempt to classify, first the types of humor in cyberspace are analyzed in general and then the contents of humor and jokes that were published on social networks during the spread of Corona virus are assorted. The final effort of this research is to accumulate unconscious layers of a concentrated energy, anger or anxiety that manifests itself in the form of humorous content and jokes in cyberspace; while limiting its subject to Coronavirus and related humorous content. Typology of satire content can be useful to determine conscious and subconscious concerns of the society and in this article, satire of the corona virus era is analyzed as everyday political, taboo breaker, social-communicational and popular types.