Laughing at the Pandemic: Youth Performance and Digital Humour in Response to Covid-19 in Nigeria

Inyabri, Idom T.; Aboh, Romanus; Mensah, Eyo

doi:10.1080/10131752.2021.1987646

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“…Studying the sample sizes of the selected studies was important to assess the reliability and validity of the conclusions of the studies, as "one can draw a precise and accurate conclusion only with an appropriate sample size" (Nayak 2010). Some studies (7 per cent) did not specify the sample size (Lomotey 2020;Chłopicki & Brzozowska 2021;Inyabri et al 2021). In almost 31 per cent of the studies, the sample size considered was very small; the number of posts ranged from 3 to 20 ( The researchers applied various qualitative, quantitative, computational, and mixed methods to address their research goals and questions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Discourse analysis was the most used method for analysing the posts. Various types of discourse analysis, such as multimodal discourse analysis (Dynel 2020(Dynel , 2022Lotfy & Soliman 2021;Ogoanah & Ojo 2021), genre-based discourse analysis (Han & Kuipers 2021), critical discourse analysis (Graham 2022;Haider & Al-Abbas 2022), multimodal critical discourse analysis (Inyabri et al 2021), and feminist critical discourse analysis (Lomotey 2020) were used in the studies. This method enabled the researchers to focus on the production and distribution processes of the COVID-19 humour.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Beyond laughter and smiles

Bageshwar

Zafar

2023

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Amid the deluge of serious social media posts regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, humorous posts brought users much-needed respite. This article reviews studies on social media-based COVID-19 humour in 42 research articles that were selected from four databases, viz. Science Direct, Scopus, Taylor & Francis, and Web of Science. After the classification and analysis of the articles on the basis of some key features, a detailed description and discussion of the findings have been carried out. The results concerning the characteristics and functions of COVID-19 humour reveal that most studies investigated image-text memes; the most important feature found was ‘humour,’ in addition to others like sarcasm, irony, satire, criticism, juxtaposition, and locality. Intertextuality played a significant role in the structure of humorous posts, especially those related to specific countries. Additionally, it shows that although research on COVID-19 humour on social media is still in an early phase, several findings appear stable across various studies included in this review. Moreover, most humour studied is not only about the virus or the disease itself, but also focuses on absurd situations individuals found themselves in due to the pandemic and the lockdown that followed.

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Beyond laughter and smiles

Bageshwar

Zafar

2023

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“…A number of recent studies have documented young people's responses to COVID-19 in South Africa and elsewhere (see, for example: Álvarez-Iglesias, Garman & Lund 2021; Bhandari 2021; Coetzee et al 2021;Gallagher et al 2020;Gittings et al 2021;Govender et al 2020;Haffejee & Levine 2020;Inyabri, Aboh & Mensah 2021;Kaur et al 2021;Mohamad 2020;Pinet, Sanyu & Youn 2021). Three common themes cut across this growing body of literature, namely: the psychological burden of the pandemic on the mental health of young people; the intensified material challenges faced by young people as a result of the pandemic (especially in relation to livelihoods and food security); and the coping mechanisms displayed by young people through creative expression both online and offline.…”

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“…Despite these nuances, the cross-cutting trends in young people's responses to COVID-19 emerging from South Africa chime with research emerging elsewhere, particularly with regard to creativity (and, more specifically, creativity online), as a lens through which to understand young people's responses to the medical, psychological, social and economic impacts of the pandemic. For example, Inyabri, Aboh & Mensah (2021) use creative digital data sourced from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp to demonstrate how young people in Nigeria used humour to come to terms with the novelty of a global pandemic and to communicate their perceptions of COVID-19 in Nigeria. Their 2021 article also explores the extent to which social media provides a platform for young people to practise civic engagement, which Adler and Goggin (2005, p. 236) define as the 'ways in which citizens participate in the life of a community in order to improve conditions for others or to help shape the community's future'.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Their 2021 article also explores the extent to which social media provides a platform for young people to practise civic engagement, which Adler and Goggin (2005, p. 236) define as the 'ways in which citizens participate in the life of a community in order to improve conditions for others or to help shape the community's future'. Inyabri, Aboh & Mensah (2021) argue that social media provides a space in which young Nigerians can satirically articulate angst about the political system in which they live.…”

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South African urban youth responses to living in a world with COVID: Lessons from #Slam4urLife

Mazetti¹,

Schmidt²,

Hardie³

et al. 2022

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Using poetry, visual art, songs, raps and sketches submitted to #Slam4urLife, a social media competition encouraging young people in South Africa to respond creatively to the COVID-19 pandemic, this article outlines young urban people’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa through four narratives: shock, loss, survival and activism. Resting on practices of engaged scholarship, it draws on knowledge bases and collaborations in and beyond the academy to contribute grounded research on arts-based social media competitions as an effective method for encouraging and amplifying the youth voice. It does this by creating digital public spaces in which young people can practise civic engagement in contexts where this cannot be done in physical public spaces. In doing so, the article contributes to the literature on community-based research and youth in African cities from the perspective of South Africa. It also argues the importance of art-based social media competitions in creating digital public spaces in which the youth voice can be encouraged, legitimised and amplified in so far as these kinds of digital spaces allow for a kind of civic engagement not always seen by young people in the physical public spaces of African cities.

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