ABSTRACT
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 presents changes in media and communication in three areas: media production, media content, and media usage contexts. It then describes the theoretical and practical, methodological, technical, organizational, and ethical challenges in conducting research in circumstances of sudden change in research conditions, emergency situations and developing crises. Drawing on various theoretical studies and empirical research, the volume illustrates the principles and results of applying diverse research methods to the changing role of media in a pandemic and offers good practices and guidance to address the problems in implementing research projects in a time of sudden difficulties and challenges.
This diverse and interdisciplinary book will be of significance to scholars and researchers in media studies, communication studies, research methods, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies.
Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|53 pages
New theoretical and methodological foundations
chapter 2|12 pages
The uberisation of higher education
chapter 4|11 pages
Research project reformulation
part II|44 pages
Changes in media outlets activity and practices
chapter 5|15 pages
Broadcasters' strategy case studies
chapter 6|15 pages
Natural language processing and statistic
chapter |12 pages
7News shareability analysis
part III|65 pages
Changes in media content and narration
chapter 11|14 pages
Qualitative and quantitative social media content analysis
chapter 12|13 pages
Mixed analysis of user activity, content and networks
part IV|54 pages
Changes in media usage and reception
chapter 13|13 pages
Participative research
chapter |15 pages
16Sentiment analysis, topic modelling and social network analysis
part V|9 pages
Conclusions