DOI: 10.18503/2658-3186-2021-5-4-50-56
Abstract. The problem to be solved in the study is what comic forms the compensatory-protective mechanisms of wit techniques for a person during the pandemic period are presented on the Internet. Research method is content analysis of the comic in cultural and communication form on the Internet during the covid-19 pandemic and self-isolation. The analysis of humor on the Internet is considered on the example of forms: motivational pictures; memes; fakes; anti-stress paintings based on the classics. The scientific novelty of the research lies in determining the direction of analysis of social diffusion of compensatory defense mechanisms of a person playing during a pandemic and self-isolation on the basis of the cognitive mechanisms of the comic in a cultural and communication form. The comic presented in the wit techniques on the Internet reveals the reaction to new social phenomena during a period of pandemic and self-isolation. Humor as an effective strategy for increasing resilience and coping with self-isolation during a pandemic, is due to a decrease in psycho-emotional stress, optimization of the process of self-organization of behavior and regulation of the emotional sphere in a situation of risk and uncertainty. Humor is presented in various forms of original creativity, such as: motivational pictures; poetic form (description of the problems that have arisen and ways to solve them with humor); memes (based on literary classics, films, cartoons); anti-stress pictures (photographs of staging pictures based on works of painting on the example of works from the world art culture. Humor on the Internet is an effective means of reducing emotional stress and mental hygiene of the individual.
Keywords: internet humor during the covid-19 pandemic; wit techniques; coping; the fear of death; tolerance for uncertainty.
Author:
Mariya V. Musiychuk, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Department of Psychology of Institute of Humanitarian Education of Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University, Magnitogorsk, Russia. Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University, Magnitogorsk, Russia; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Musiychuk M. V. Internet Humor During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Self-isolation – “Feast in Time of Plague”?, Gumanitarno-pedagogicheskie issledovaniya [Humanitarian and pedagogical Research], 2021, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 50–56.