{"id":8769,"date":"2021-11-04T12:54:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1372084"},"modified":"2021-11-04T12:54:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:54:32","slug":"hide-the-pain-harold-study-shows-memes-help-ease-pandemic-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=8769","title":{"rendered":"Hide the pain, Harold \u2014 study shows memes help ease pandemic stress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Zoom meeting after Zoom meeting, while trying to feed, entertain and beg-to-sleep an infant whose day care had closed, I needed a break but couldn\u2019t really take one in April of 2020.<\/p>\n

Enter memes. Between work, moving the laundry and taking care of my own dogs, I could sneak a peak at Instagram and chuckle at images of very excited pups<\/a>, psyched that their humans were now home all day, every day.<\/p>\n

I study media processes and effects<\/a>, which is the psychology of how media messages can affect you. As the pandemic dragged on, I got more and more interested in how people were using social media \u2013 and memes featuring cute and funny pics, in particular \u2013 as a way to think and communicate with others about life during a global pandemic.<\/p>\n

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