 | Pandemic Communication Subjects: Communication Studies; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Health and Social Care; Language & Literature; Politics & International Relations; Communication Research Methods; Communication Theory; Development Communication; Environmental Communication; Family Communication; Health Communication; Intercultural Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Communication; Political Communication; Public Relations; Rhetoric; Risk Communication; Health & Society; Business Management and Accounting; Public Health Policy and Practice; Language & Linguistics; Politics & the Media; Health Communication; Language and Communication; Political Communication; Marketing; This book details how the processes of communication are affected by the presence of a pandemic and establishes a research agenda of 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 of consideration for pandemic communication from its subdiscipline's perspective, 2) examine how communication varies during pandemic(s), 3) provide examples of how pandemic(s) have 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. Stephen M. Croucher is Professor and Head of School in the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing at Massey University, New Zealand Audra Diers-Lawson is Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Leadership Marketing at Kristiania University College, Norway. |
