Since its outbreak in late 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has become a global health crisis of unprecedented magnitude in a matter of a few months and claimed thousands of lives. The pandemic forced billions of people around the world to stay home in quarantines and lockdowns and quickly adapt to sudden changes in living andContinue reading “When the internet gets ‘coronified’: Pandemic creativity and humor in internet memes”
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Is the war rhetoric around Covid-19 an Anglo-American thing?
Reading the news reporting on Covid-19 in the British media, one cannot but be struck by the use of metaphors of war. We are literally ‘bombarded’ with them every day. As soon as it became obvious that the new coronavirus poses a serious threat to the public health in Britain, newspapers across the country wereContinue reading “Is the war rhetoric around Covid-19 an Anglo-American thing?”
The veil of civilization and the semiotics of the mask
It seems that the world is coming around to the idea of ordinary people wearing face masks as a way of slowing the spread of the coronavirus. After months of dismissing their usefulness for the general public, and even extorting people to STOP BUYING MASKS!, on Tuesday (March 31) the US Surgeon General and theContinue reading “The veil of civilization and the semiotics of the mask”
Viral Discourse 