Digital humour in the COVID-19 pandemic : perspectives from the global south /: perspectives from the global south. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Shepherd Mpofu.
• Editors: Mpofu, Shepherd
• Contents: 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 media.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 362.1962414; COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Humor; Digital media -- Social aspects -- Developing countries; Developing countries -- Humor
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030792794
• Related ISBNs: 9783030792787
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