ABSTRACT

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 3|17 pages

Science Communication and Pandemics

chapter 4|20 pages

Pandemic Communication

CDC and WHO Approaches to Emergency Risk Communication and Emerging Infectious Disease Crises

chapter 5|17 pages

Public Relations and Pandemics

chapter 6|21 pages

The New Normal

Pandemic Communication and Sustainable Organizations

chapter 7|24 pages

Meme-ing Accountability

Visual Communication as Character Assassination of Austrian and Swedish Politicians and Government Agencies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

chapter 8|15 pages

Applied Communication and Pandemics

Expanding the IDEA Model of Instructional Risk and Crisis Communication

chapter 9|18 pages

Interpreting the Interpersonal

Crisis Communication Insights for Pandemics

chapter 12|16 pages

International Communication

chapter 13|18 pages

Pandemic Rhetoric