Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9783030792794
ISBN-13 : 303079279X
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Book Synopsis Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic by : Shepherd Mpofu

Download or read book Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic written by Shepherd Mpofu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital humour in the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives from the Global South offers a groundbreaking intervention on how digital media were used from below by ordinary citizens to negotiate the global pandemic humorously. This book considers the role played by digital media during the pandemic, and indeed in the socio-political life of the Global South, as indispensable and revolutionary to human communication. In many societies, humour not only signifies laughter and frivolity, but acts as an important echo that accompanies, critiques, questions, disrupts, agitates and comments on societal affairs and the human condition. This book analyses citizens’ use of social media and humour to mediate the pandemic in a diverse range of countries, including Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The book will appeal to academics and students of media and communication studies, political studies, rhetoric, and to policy makers.


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