Shepherd (Hrsg.) Mpofu

Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Perspectives from the Global South

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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 c… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-030-79278-7
EAN: 9783030792787
Produktnummer: 38101218
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.4 cm 588 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 588

Über 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.