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Copying mechanism and the experience of pandemic and social isolation on Joseph Fink's podcast Our Plague Year (2020)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the reception and personal experience of the pandemic in the creators of the podcast Our Plague Year, as well as in its audience. Numerous statements collected from March to August 2020 make it possible to follow the emotional reactions of the community created around the podcast to the changing social reality during the pandemic in, so to say, real time. The recurring themes and motifs are considered as topoi of the plague, and the production of the podcast as such is presented as an adaptive mechanism. In turn, the result of the podcast is the creation of a melancholy subject of the pandemic, defined by the loss of the sense of normalcy.

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