La vida de los memes de mascarillas del COVID-19: Un estudio diacrónico del panorama memético durante la pandemia

The life of COVID-19 mask memes: A diachronic study of the pandemic memescape

 Marta Dynel, Vilnius (Lituania)

https://doi.org/10.3916/C72-2022-06

Palabras clave

Marcarillas COVID-19, corpus diacrónico, meme, constructo memético, humor, viral

Resumen

Tomando como punto de partida una definición precisa de un meme de Internet (frente a un constructo memético), este artículo pretende compartir los resultados obtenidos del primer estudio diacrónico sobre memes, centrado específicamente en los memes de mascarillas en el amplio panorama de memes surgido a raíz de la pandemia del COVID-19, asociado a la cambiante situación sociopolítica. El estudio utiliza un corpus diacrónico de memes con mascarillas para el COVID-19 etiquetados por usuarios (publicados en Internet desde enero de 2020 hasta enero de 2021) extraídos de Google mediante un script de Python. Sobre la base de un enfoque de teoría fundamentada, se extraen y examinan diez categorías meméticas (divididas en cuatro grupos) a través de una lente analítica de discurso multimodal. El análisis cuantitativo diacrónico muestra que los constructos meméticos, inspirados por la situación/acontecimientos sociopolíticos actuales y facilitados por el contexto sociopolítico (por ejemplo, el confinamiento), parecen persistir, aunque con intensidad variada, durante la mayor parte del año, lo que permitió que muchos memes se volvieran virales. La longevidad de los memes y los constructos meméticos es indicativa del objetivo principal de los usuarios, que es compartir elementos interesantes y/o humorísticos (no siempre nuevos o relevantes) por diversión, independientemente de la naturaleza de los memes (es decir, humor autotélico por sí mismo o comentarios de los usuarios sobre la realidad circundante).

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El Centro Nacional de Ciencias, Polonia (Proyecto 2018/30/E/HS2/00644, Marta Dynel, Universidad de Łódź). La autora desea agradecer su ayuda a Gosia Krawentek.

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