This book details how the processes of communication are affected by the presence of a pandemic and establishes a research agenda for those effects across the broad field of communication studies.
Through contributions from experts in communication subdisciplines such as crisis, organizational, interpersonal, health, intergroup, and intercultural, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive view of the emerging field of study "pandemic communication." Each chapter has four primary objectives to: (1) define critical issues for pandemic communication from its subdiscipline’s perspective, (2) examine how communication varies during pandemic(s), (3) provide examples of how pandemic(s) havefor affected communication, and (4) propose a research agenda to build pandemic communication theory.
This book is suited to undergraduate or post-graduate courses or modules in communication studies across a variety of subdisciplines as well as a reference for researchers in the subject.
Chapter 1. Introduction to Pandemic Communication
Stephen M. Croucher
Audra Diers-Lawson
Chapter 2. Health Communication and Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A 22-Nation Exploration of Mask Wearing
Stephen M. Croucher, Joanna Cullinane, Nicola Murray, Kenneth T. Rocker, and Thao Nguyen
Chapter 3. Science Communication and Pandemics
Doug Ashwell
Chapter 4. Pandemic Communication: CDC and Who Approaches to Emergency Risk Communication and Emerging Infectious Disease Crises
Matthew W. Seeger
Henry S. Seeger
Chapter 5. Public Relations and Pandemics
Maureen Taylor
Chapter 6. The New Normal: Pandemic Communication and Sustainable Organizations
Audra Diers-Lawson
Chapter 7. Meme-Ing Accountability: Visual Communication as Character Assassination of Austrian and Swedish Politicians and Government Agencies During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Diotima Bertel
Bengt Johansson
Viktoria Adler
Marina Ghersetti
Chapter 8. Applied Communication and Pandemics: Expanding the Idea Model of Instructional Risk and Crisis Communication
Deanna D. Sellnow, Sofia E. Salazar Carballo, and Timothy L. Sellnow
Chapter 9. Interpreting the Interpersonal: Crisis Communication Insights for Pandemics
Brooke Fisher Liu
Abbey Blake Levenshus
Chapter 10. Intergroup Communication During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A 20-Nation Analysis of Prejudice
Stephen M. Croucher
Thao Nguyen
George Guoyu Ding
Audra Diers-Lawson
Anthony Spencer
Nadira Eskiçorapçı
Davide Girardelli
Tatiana M. Permyakova
Mohan Dutta
Elira Turdubaeva
Doug Ashwell
Sandra Bustamante
Oscar Gomez
Chapter 11. Instructional Communication During Pandemics
Stephanie Kelly
Chapter 12. Pandemic Communication: International Communication
Anthony Spencer
Chapter 13. Pandemic Rhetoric
Orla Vigsø
Chapter 14. Language and Pandemic Communication
Tatiana M. Permyakova
Elena A. Smolianina
Irina S. Morozova
Chapter 15. Political Communication and Pandemics
Benjamin R. Bates
Jason A. Edwards
Chapter 16. Reflecting on Theory and Research in Pandemic Communication
Audra Diers-Lawson
Biography
Stephen M. Croucher is Professor and Head of School in the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing at Massey University, New Zealand.
Audra Diers-Lawson is Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Leadership, and Marketing at Kristiania University College, Norway.
