Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.46640/imr.10.19.8

Humor in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jelena Hadžić orcid.org/0000-0002-1790-1652 ; Presscut d.o.o., Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Marina Baralić orcid.org/0000-0003-0092-2489 ; Presscut d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The research is focused on the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia – March 2020. The subject of the research are humorous messages related to the pandemic. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, this research showed how the interviewed respondents experienced the received humorous content related to the coronavirus and what content characteristics of the humorous messages were detected through the content analysis.

Keywords

Covid-19; coronavirus; reception of humor; content characteristics of humorous messages

Hrčak ID:

262472

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/262472

Publication date:

15.9.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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