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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors 1 An Introduction to Pandemic Communication 2 Health Communication and Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A 22-Nation Exploration of Mask-Wearing 3 Science Communication and Pandemics 4 Pandemic Communication: CDC and WHO Approaches to Emergency Risk Communication and Emerging Infectious Disease Crises 5 Public Relations and Pandemics 6 The New Normal: Pandemic Communication and Sustainable Organizations 7 Meme-ing Accountability: Visual Communication as Character Assassination of Austrian and Swedish Politicians and Government Agencies during the COVID-19 Pandemic 8 Applied Communication and Pandemics: Expanding the IDEA Model of Instructional Risk and Crisis Communication 9 Interpreting the Interpersonal: Crisis Communication Insights for Pandemics 10 Intergroup Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A 20-Nation Analysis of Prejudice 11 Instructional Communication during Pandemics 12 International Communication 13 Pandemic Rhetoric 14 Language and Pandemic Communication 15 Political Communication and Pandemics 16 Reflecting on Theory and Research in Pandemic Communication Index "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"-- Provided by publisher
