Public Communication in the Time of COVID-19: Perspectives from the Communication Discipline on the Pandemic

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This collection, edited by Jim A. Kuypers, analyzes genres of public communication to examine how the pandemic has impacted specific areas of scholarship within the communication discipline. Contributors begin each chapter by acknowledging the parameters of their sub-discipline and then discussing key elements being affected by the pandemic and pandemic responses. Viewing the pandemic through the eyes of their sub-disciplines, contributors offer unique insights on the effects of the pandemic upon human communication in their specific area of focus, examining how the pandemic will continue to affect the teaching of their subject areas and providing suggestions for future research. Sub-disciplines represented in this collection include digital rhetoric, journalism & mass communication, free speech, public relations, sports communication, public address, health communication, spiritual communication, and popular culture. Scholars of communication, media studies, and education will find this book particularly useful.

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"Public Communication in the Time of Covid-19 brings together the work of leading scholars in the Communication discipline to understand how the pandemic strained communication practices across a variety of social contexts. Explaining the uncertainty and anxiety caused by the Covid-19 virus from a communication perspective, the chapters offer a wide-ranging set of theories and concepts for teaching and research, and in doing so, strengthens our intellectual, emotional, and social capacities to endure the strains of living under a pandemic. A timely and much needed contribution from the Communication discipline."

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Jim A. Kuypers is professor of rhetoric and political communication at Virginia Tech.