Social Distancing in a World of Memes

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dc.creatorCampbell, Heidi A
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-21T16:34:33Z
dc.date.available2020-08-21T16:34:33Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-21
dc.descriptionThis eBook unpack and present common stories told about social distancing, through the visual-textual medium of popular internet meme circulating online during the first half of 2020 due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic.en
dc.description.abstractThis eBook presents the finding from a creative research study conducted between March-July 2020 on the theme of social distancing during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The book explores the messages internet memes that circulated widely online, communicated about the practice of social distancing. Many people were introduced to the concept of social distancing for the first time in March 2020, as a health and safety strategy for combating the spread of the Corona virus. The project argues internet memes played an important role in helping people understand and adjust to the behavioral changes this practice required. As a form of visual-textual digital communication that is focused on humor, internet memes also became important tool for helping people making sense of this time of anxiety and uncertainty. Through meme images and summary reports this eBook unpack the core stories popular internet memes told about social distancing, and the potential implications of these narratives in the culture of the pandemic.en
dc.description.sponsorshipGlasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M Universityen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.21423/socialdistancinginaworldofmemes
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/188699
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Religion Publications;8
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectMemesen
dc.subjectInterneten
dc.subjectSocial Distancingen
dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.subjectPandemicen
dc.subjectPublic Responseen
dc.subjectHumoren
dc.subjectReligionen
dc.titleSocial Distancing in a World of Memesen
dc.typeBooken
local.departmentCommunicationen

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