The Covid-19 Pandemic as a Challenge for Media and Communication Studies

ISBN-13: 9781032139418 / Miękka / 2023 / 238 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction;  Part I: New Theoretical and Methodological Foundations;  1. Dilemmas and Uncertainty: Seven Research Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic;  2. The Uberisation of Higher Education: Datafied Dynamics in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic;  3. An Ecological Approach: The Infodemic, Pandemic, and COVID-19;  4. Research Project Reformulation: A Narrative on the Design and Methodological Changes Implemented During the Emergency;  Part II: Changes in Media Outlets Activity and Practices;  5. Broadcasters’ Strategy Case Studies: Modification of Product Offers as a Challenge in Times of Plague and Survival;  6. Natural Language Processing and Statistic: The First Six Months of the COVID-19 Infodemic in Croatia;  7. News Shareability Analysis: Global Television Channels as Sources of Information During the Pandemic;  Part III: Changes in Media Content and Narration;  8. Narrative Mode of Analysis: From Media Texts to Pandemic Memoryscape;  9. Diaries: The Lockdown Narratives of Individuals;  10. Media-Aesthetic Approach: A Global Visualization of the Pandemic;  11. Qualitative and Quantitative Social Media Content Analysis: TikTok Usage by the World Health Organisation During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic;  12. Mixed Analysis of User Activity, Content, and Networks: Twitter’s Information Cascades on Conspiratorial Pandemics;  Part IV: Changes in Media Usage and Reception;  13. Participative Research: The Case of Media Usage by Children Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic;  14. Diaries: Researching Lockdown Social Distancing in the Digital Age;  15. Search Trends Analysis: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Other Health Campaigns;  16. Sentiment Analysis, Topic Modelling and Social Network Analysis: COVID-19, Protest Movements, and the Polish Tweetosphere;  Conclusions;  17. Various Dynamics of the COVID-19 World of Media and Communication Research

O autorze

Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech is Assistant Professor with Habilitation at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

Bartłomiej Łódzki is Assistant Professor at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.