Overview
This is the first volume to explore how digital media were used to engage with the global COVID-19 pandemic using online jokes, videos and memes
Examines the role of digital humour in challenging power and providing solidarity
Includes chapters on a wide range of countries across South America, Asia and Africa
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Meme-making Practices and Making Sense of the Pandemic
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Gender, Race and Family: Identity Politics in the Pandemic
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Weapons of the Masses: Humour, Ridicule and Confronting Political Power
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Book Subtitle: Perspectives from the Global South
Editors: Shepherd Mpofu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79279-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79278-7Published: 22 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79281-7Published: 23 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79279-4Published: 21 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 350
Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations
Topics: Digital/New Media, Media and Communication