| Literature DB >> 34866859 |
Paul Eisewicht1, Nico Steinmann1, Pauline Kortmann1.
Abstract
The article typifies individual experiences as well as collective negotiations of the crisis and the handling of it in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic on the basis of the platform Imgur.com. For this, we draw on a sample of 2% of the highest rated posts (645 posts) published under the hashtag #coronavirus. The posts were coded according to the principles of (Visual) Grounded Theory and descriptively-statistically analyzed following a mixed-method approach. It is not only noticeable how many different media formats are used, but also that the participants' own posts appear alongside posts from other social media that have been reused. The platform itself is thus also a filter for contributions from other platforms. In addition, personal posts on dealing with the pandemic appear alongside political criticism and informative postings. Along the analyzed data material, it can thus be shown that users can combine different communication purposes, such as entertainment, information and social connection, in rapid succession on the same platform. One focus of the analyses is on the media format of memes, which play a prominent role in social media and which, due to their multimodality and their reference context based on adaptive seriality, pose challenges to the process of data collection and analysis. The reflection on the basis of the material therefore provides new impulses for the study of memes and communication on social media.Entities:
Keywords: COVID-19; Corona; Filter Loops; Grounded Theory; Imgur; Memes; Multimodality; Platform Vernacular; Social Media
Year: 2021 PMID: 34866859 PMCID: PMC8630298 DOI: 10.1007/s11614-021-00465-w
Source DB: PubMed Journal: OZS Osterr Z Soziol ISSN: 1011-0070
| Autor*Innen | Plattform(en) | Zeitraum | Datenerhebung | Auswertung |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynel ( | 9gag, Reddit, Imgur, Twitter | Jan. 2020–April 2020 | Suchbegriffe: ‚#COVID19‘, ‚#coronavirus‘, ‚meme‘ und ‚face mask‘; getaggt als: ‚funny‘ oder ‚humo(u)r‘; min. drei Nutzerreaktionen | Grounded Theory und multimodale Diskursanalyse |
| Flecha Ortiz et al. ( | Interviews über Memes | März 2020 | Online Survey | Quantitativ (PLS-SEM) |
| Pulos ( | U. a. cheezburger.com, me.me, Reddit, Imgflip | keine Angabe | Erhebung via Google Images; Fokussierung auf Meme-Typen ‚Macro‘, ‚shop‘ oder einen Hybrid; Suchbegriffe inspiriert durch ‚COVID-19 Vocabulary‘ von Kathy Katella ( | Exemplarische Auswahl |
| Oduor und Kodak ( | Fünf Whatsapp-Gruppenchats (921 Teilnehmende) | 13. März 2020–1. April 2020 | 25 Memes; jeweils mit min. fünf Antworten; Fokus: Nutzung von Humor | Kodierende Textanalyse/Computer Mediated Discourses Analysis |
| Saint Laurent et al. ( | 23. Jan. 2020–17. Mai 2020 | Subreddit ‚r/CoronavirusMemes‘; 273 Memes betrachtet; Fokus auf politische Bezüge | Quantitatives Kodieren; anschließend Inhaltsanalyse | |
| Hussein and Aljamili ( | Jordanische Seiten auf Instagram und Facebook | März 2020–Mai 2020 | Auswahl von 50 Memes und Karikaturen basiert auf ‚Likes‘; Fokus auf Humor | Social Semiotic Approach |
























