Overview
- Examines the global communicative landscape during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in a range of interdisciplinary contexts
- Engages with the complex media environment and how it intersects with the controversial political, sociocultural, and public health communication of COVID-19
- Interrogates, challenges and critiques a wide range of global contexts while exploring the unique localised knowledge and communicative experiences of the COVID pandemic
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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News Media at the Coalface: Reporting COVID-19
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Communicating the Public Health Response
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Citizens, Social Media, and Digital Technologies
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Reviews
“It is refreshing to read frank accounts of the negatives and difficult challenges of public communication and how these can be addressed, rather than glowing accounts of the importance and success of communication that characterizes many collections of case studies. This is an often raw and provocative collection of studies worthy of the attention of journalism and media studies scholars, health communication researchers and professionals, and public health officials.” (Jim Macnamara, International Journal of Communication, Issue 16, 2022)
'An invaluable document of COVID-19’s media life, which offers a richly nuanced examination of COVID-19 news journalism, public facing health sector communications and social media. Communicating COVID-19 is a touchstone for the emerging field of pandemic media.'
- Mark D M Davis, Monash University, Australia, co-author of Pandemics, Publics and Narrative (2020)
'As governments and scientists scrambled to find solutions in the face of grave uncertainty created by COVID-19, there was a massive public demand for information. Filling this communication gap is the focus of this must-read, timely book, which includes excellent scholarly contributions from across the globe.'
- Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Professor in Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University, USA, and Associate Scientific Director at CAPRISA
'Communicating COVID-19 takes on a global event in a truly global way, bringing together perspectives on pandemic communication from a wide range of national contexts. It makes a powerful case for the centrality of communication in the social response to the pandemic, and brings substantial early research to bear on issues related to journalistic practice and ethics, inequality and voice and uncertainty in the face of an emerging disease.'
- Daniel Hallin, Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Monique Lewis is a communications scholar, sociologist, and lecturer in media and communication at Griffith University, Australia, and a member of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research.
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: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Editors: Monique Lewis, Eliza Govender, Kate Holland
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79735-5
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 license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79734-8Published: 08 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79737-9Published: 08 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79735-5Published: 07 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 395
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Science and Technology Studies, Journalism, Digital/New Media, Political Communication