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The Covid-19 Pandemic as a Challenge for Media and Communication Studies

256 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

256 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

256 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This truly interdisciplinary volume brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore changes in the significance of media and communication in the era of pandemic. The book answers two interrelated questions: how media and communication reality changed during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how media and communication were effectively studied during this time. The book... Read more

Introduction
Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech and Bartłomiej Łódzki

Part I: New Theoretical and Methodological Foundations

1. Dilemmas and Uncertainty: Seven Research Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech

2. The Uberisation of Higher Education: Datafied Dynamics in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Göran Bolin

3. An Ecological Approach: The Infodemic, Pandemic, and COVID-19
Fausto Colombo

4. Research Project Reformulation: A Narrative on the Design and Methodological Changes Implemented During the Emergency
Leopoldina Fortunati

Part II: Changes in Media Outlets Activity and Practices

5. Broadcasters’ Strategy Case Studies: Modification of Product Offers as a Challenge in Times of Plague and Survival
Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska

6. Natural Language Processing and Statistic: The First Six Months of the COVID-19 Infodemic in Croatia
Slobodan Beliga, Sanda Martinčić-Ipšić, Mihaela Matešić and Ana Meštrović

7. News Shareability Analysis: Global Television Channels as Sources of Information During the Pandemic
Bartłomiej Łódzki

Part III: Changes in Media Content and Narration

8. Narrative Mode of Analysis: From Media Texts to Pandemic Memoryscape
Nevena Daković

9. Diaries: The Lockdown Narratives of Individuals
Valentina Marinescu, Bianca Fox, Ramona Marinache, Daniela Roventa Frumusani and Silvia Branea

10. Media-Aesthetic Approach: A Global Visualization of the Pandemic
Marina Zagidullina

11. Qualitative and Quantitative Social Media Content Analysis: TikTok Usage by the World Health Organisation During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Roksana M. Zdunek

12. Mixed Analysis of User Activity, Content, and Networks: Twitter’s Information Cascades on Conspiratorial Pandemics
Sara Monaci and Simone Persico

Part IV: Changes in Media Usage and Reception

13. Participative Research: The Case of Media Usage by Children Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Anda Rodideal

14. Diaries: Researching Lockdown Social Distancing in the Digital Age
Manuela Farinosi and Chiara Piccolo

15. Search Trends Analysis: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Other Health Campaigns
Ricardo Matos de Araújo Rios and Edson Carlo Brandão Silva

16. Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modelling and Social Network Analysis: COVID-19, Protest Movements, and the Polish Tweetosphere
Andrzej Jarynowski and Daniel Płatek

Conclusions

17. Various Dynamics of the COVID-19 World of Media and Communication Research
Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech