Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from the Global South - Hardcover

 
9783030792787: Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from the Global South
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3030792781 ISBN 13: 9783030792787
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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. 


Von der hinteren Coverseite

<p><i>Digital humour in the COVID-19 pandemic:&nbsp;Perspectives from the Global South</i> 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. &nbsp;The book will appeal to academics and students of media and communication studies, political studies, rhetoric, and to policy makers.</p><p><b>Shepherd&nbsp;Mpofu</b> 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 <i>Mediating Xenophobia in Africa </i>(Palgrave, 2020). He regularly publishes in academic journals on themes such as media and identity, media and protests, gender and race.&nbsp;</p><br>

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3030792781
ISBN 13 
9783030792787
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
370
Herausgeber
Mpofu Shepherd
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Yeepin GmbH
492000000000
sunshine12232@outlook.com

Alleestr.11
Kaiserslautern
Rheinland-Pfalz
67655
Deutschland