ABSTRACT
This book analyses some of the many upheavals brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of the COVID-19–communication–culture interface, with a particular focus on the new global, virtual workplace. It brings together a pluridisciplinary and multinational team of researchers from the fields of sociology and organisational studies, discourse analysis, linguistics, communication and cultural studies, and includes testimonials from actors within the professional sector such as international managers, consultants and foreign trade advisors.
The collection examines a wide range of phenomena including communication on the pandemic by public authorities, the pandemic as a discursive construct, the digital turn and its impact on communication, the role of social media, as well as national diplomacy and questions of surveillance, (bio)power and trust. Issues pertaining specifically to the workplace focus on the impact of remote work, including the challenge of building cohesive work relations and managing cultural difference, distance recruitment, the new forms of professional online communication, the future of the remote work model and questions of identity that are underpinned by the culture of professions. It aims to theoretically inform some of the enormous changes which have been brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic at multiple levels of our professional and social lives. It concludes with a virtual round-table discussion on the question of cultural difference with respect to both the pandemic itself and work practice.
COVID-19, Communication and Culture: Beyond the Global Workplace will be of great interest to academics and professionals interested in the communication and discourse and the cultural impact of COVID-19.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |17 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|15 pages
Introduction
part I|94 pages
Communicating about COVID-19
chapter 4|24 pages
Understanding China's “intermestic” online vaccination-themed narrative strategy
chapter 5|19 pages
Formulating a discourse of solidarity amid COVID-19
part II|58 pages
Communication during COVID-19
chapter 7|20 pages
Why face-to-face communication matters
part III|64 pages
COVID-19 and representations of the workplace
chapter 11|12 pages
Remote work and the contemporary workplace
chapter 12|14 pages
COVID-19 and the culture of professions
chapter 13|18 pages
From privilege to duty
chapter 14|11 pages
International managers and expatriates in the face of the pandemic
part |14 pages
Postface