Overview
- Examines global communication experiences in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Explores media’s role in health, politics, technology, society, and culture during COVID-19
- Offers interdisciplinary insights from media studies, journalism, public health, and strategic communication
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Radio, Journalism, and News Media Representations
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Risk Communication and Community Engagement
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Vaccine Communication and Digital Technologies
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About this book
This edited collection, follows on from 'Communicating COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' (2021) and brings together different scholars from around the world to explore and critique the ongoing advances of communicating COVID, two years into the pandemic.
Pandemic life has become familiar to us, with all its disruptions and uncertainties. In the second year of COVID, many societies emerged well attuned to new waves of infections, while others, having initially demonstrated 'gold standard' responses, regressed, either through a premature end to public health restrictions or challenges around vaccine rollouts. In many countries, bitter social divisions have arisen over mask-wearing, lockdowns, quarantine and vaccination.
To better understand the ever evolving communicative landscape of COVID-19, this collection shares updated perspectives from the disciplines of media and communication, journalism, public health and primary care, sociology, and political and behavioural science, addressing the major issues that have confronted communicators, including vaccine hesitancy, misinformation, and the mobilisation of community driven communication responses as restrictions eased in various parts of the world.
Reviews
-Terry Flew, Professor of Digital Communication and Culture, The University of Sydney
“This timely update includes a well-designed compilation of case studies and experiences on the role of communication in the COVID-19 era […] an important resource for communicators and other health professionals engaged in interpandemic preparedness and pandemic response.”
—Renata Schiavo, PhD, MA, CCL, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media, and Engagement in Global Health.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Monique Lewis is a communications scholar, sociologist, and lecturer in media and communication at Griffith University, Australia.
Eliza Govender is Associate Professor and Head of Department of the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS), University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Kate Holland is Senior Research Fellow in the News & Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Communicating COVID-19
Book Subtitle: Media, Trust, and Public Engagement
Editors: Monique Lewis, Eliza Govender, Kate Holland
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41237-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41236-3Published: 05 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41239-4Due: 04 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41237-0Published: 03 January 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 501
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 31 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media and Communication, Science and Technology Studies, Journalism, Digital/New Media, Political Communication