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

✍ Scribed by Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech (editor), Bartłomiej Łódzki (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
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 visualisation of the pandemic
11 Qualitative and quantitative social media content analysis: tikTok usage by the World Health Organization 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
Index