Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-79278-7 (ISBN)
lt;p>Shepherd Mpofu is Associate Professor in Media and Communications at the University of Limpopo, South Africa. He is an African Humanities Programme Fellow. He is co-editor of Mediating Xenophobia in Africa (Palgrave, 2020). He regularly publishes in academic journals on themes such as media and identity, media and protests, gender and race.
CHAPTER 1 Social media and COVID-19: Taking humour during pandemics seriously
CHAPTER 2 Social media memes as commentary in health disasters in South Africa and Zimbabwe
CHAPTER 3 Viral jokes: Humour and grace as critical devices in memes about the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
CHAPTER 4 'Coromentality': Nigerians' use of memetic humour during the COVID-19 lockdowns
CHAPTER 5 Playfulness, or a subversion of hegemonic scientific knowledges? Analysing Internet memes and discourses on traditional medicines as remedies for COVID-19 in Zimbabwe
CHAPTER 6 "Can we uninstall 2020 and install it again? This version has a virus!": Humor and misinforming during COVID-19 pandemic on social media
CHAPTER 7 Social media audience's interpretation of selected humour memes on coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria
CHAPTER 8 Coronavirus satire: A dissection of feminist politics and humour
CHAPTER 9 'A nation that laughs together, stays together': Deconstructing humour on Twitter during the national lockdown in South Africa
CHAPTER 10 Fear and loathing and laughter: Covid 19 as an expression of decolonial love
CHAPTER 11 #VoetsekANC and Covid Corruption: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of "A Song for the ANC"
CHAPTER 12 Humour in the time of COVID-19 pandemic: A critical analysis of the subversive meanings of WhatsApp memes in Zimbabwe
CHAPTER 13 Humour in the age of contagion: Coronavirus, 'Janata Curfew' meme, and India's digital cultures of virality
CHAPTER 14 The use of meme and hashtags on Twitter towards government response during the COVID-19 curfew announcement from 1st June -14th June 2020
CHAPTER 15 Dark humour, ubuntu and the COVID-19 pandemic: A case of subaltern humoring of political elite deaths on social mediaErscheinungsdatum | 23.10.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | XVII, 350 p. 48 illus. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 606 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Coronavirus • Covid-19 • COVID-19 Lockdown • Digital Media • digital satire • Memes • Online Humour • online satire |
ISBN-10 | 3-030-79278-1 / 3030792781 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-79278-7 / 9783030792787 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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