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Online Humour, Cartoons, Videos, Memes, Jokes and Laughter in the Epoch of the Coronavirus

dc.contributor.authorNicholls, Christine
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-23T13:52:36Z
dc.date.available2021-08-23T13:52:36Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-24
dc.identifier.issn2083-2931
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/38747
dc.description.abstractFrom the onset of the indefinite deferral of our previously taken-for-granted lives, an abundance of humorous online cartoons, jokes, memes, videos and other satirical material relating to the COVID-19 outbreak—and its consequences—has emerged. Humorous responses to this dire global pandemic proliferate irrespective of location, nationality, ethnicity, age, gender and/or socio-political affiliations. Against a background of enforced lockdowns, quarantine, and sometimes gross political ineptitude, with a mounting daily global death toll, humour referencing this scourge continues to blossom. This may seem counterintuitive or inappropriate at a time of heightened anxiety and fear apropos of an invisible killer-virus, known only in diagrammatic—and, ironically, aesthetically pleasing—visual form. Online humour evoking the COVID-19 crisis is expressed recursively via intertextuality referencing literary, visual, written, oral or other “texts.” Interpictoriality is evident with memes that reconfigure renowned visual artworks. The internet enables copious discourse related to the COVID-19 eruption/disruption.Embedded in this article are examples to support the article’s theoretical basis, with intertextuality its major focus. Discussion follows, with speculation as to why humour, absurdity and wit are able to prosper in an environment of radical uncertainty and why joking about our parlous global predicament acts as a vital coping mechanism.en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl
dc.relation.ispartofseriesText Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture;10en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectviral humouren
dc.subjectCOVID-19 quarantineen
dc.subjectonline exemplarsen
dc.subjectanalysis of specific worksen
dc.subjectvalidity of humorous discourse amidst a global pandemicen
dc.titleOnline Humour, Cartoons, Videos, Memes, Jokes and Laughter in the Epoch of the Coronavirusen
dc.typeArticle
dc.page.number274-318
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationAustralian National University, Canberraen
dc.identifier.eissn2084-574X
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dc.contributor.authorEmailchristine.nicholls@anu.edu.au
dc.identifier.doi10.18778/2083-2931.10.17


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