Communicating Covid-19 - by Monique Lewis & Eliza Govender & Kate Holland (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This book explores communication during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring the work of leading communication scholars from around the world, it offers insights and analyses into how individuals, organisations, communities, and nations have grappled with understanding and responding to the pandemic that has rocked the world. The book examines the role of journalists and news media in constructing meanings about the pandemic, with chapters focusing on public interest journalism, health workers and imagined audiences in COVID-19 news. It considers public health responses in different countries, with chapters examining community-driven approaches, communication strategies of governments and political leaders, public health advocacy, and pandemic inequalities. The role of digital media and technology is also unravelled, including social media sharing of misinformation and memetic humour, crowdsourcing initiatives, the use of data in modelling, tracking and tracing, and strategies for managing uncertainties created in a pandemic.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>"An invaluable document of COVID-19's media life, which offers a richly nuanced examination of COVID-19 news journalism, public facing health sector communications and social media. <i>Communicating COVID-19</i> is a touchstone for the emerging field of pandemic media."</p><p>- <b>Mark D M Davis</b>, Monash University, Australia, co-author of <i>Pandemics, Publics and Narrative</i> (2020)</p> <p>"As governments and scientists scrambled to find solutions in the face of grave uncertainty created by COVID-19, there was a massive public demand for information. Filling this communication gap is the focus of this must-read, timely book, which includes excellent scholarly contributions from across the globe."</p><p>- <b>Quarraisha Abdool Karim</b>, Professor in Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University, USA, and Associate Scientific Director at CAPRISA</p><br>This book explores communication during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring the work of leading communication scholars from around the world, it offers insights and analyses into how individuals, organisations, communities, and nations have grappled with understanding and responding to the pandemic that has rocked the world. The book examines the role of journalists and news media in constructing meanings about the pandemic, with chapters focusing on public interest journalism, health workers and imagined audiences in COVID-19 news. It considers public health responses in different countries, with chapters examining community-driven approaches, communication strategies of governments and political leaders, public health advocacy, and pandemic inequalities. The role of digital media and technology is also unravelled, including social media sharing of misinformation and memetic humour, crowdsourcing initiatives, the use of data in modelling, tracking and tracing, and strategies for managing uncertainties created in a pandemic.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Monique Lewis</b> is a communications scholar, sociologist, and lecturer in media and communication at Griffith University, Australia, and a member of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research.</p> <p><b>Eliza Govender</b> is Associate Professor and Head of Department of the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS), University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.</p> <p><b>Kate Holland</b> is Senior Research Fellow in the News & Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra, Australia. </p>
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