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  • COVID Communication

    Exploring Pandemic Discourse

    Edited by Douglas A. Vakoch, John C. Pollock, Amanda M. Caleb ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book focuses on how we understand COVID-19—medically, socially, and rhetorically. Given the expectation that other flu pandemics will occur, it stresses the importance of examining how the public response is shaped in the face of global health emergencies. It considers questions such as how can pandemic language both limit and expand our understanding of disease as biomedical, social, and ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • COVID-19 in International Media

    Global Pandemic Perspectives

    Edited by John C. Pollock, Douglas A. Vakoch ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Journalism
    Covid-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Responses is one of the first books uniting an international team of scholars to investigate how media address critical social, political, and health issues connected to the 2020-21 COVID-19 outbreak.The book evaluates unique civic challenges, responsibilities, and opportunities for media worldwide, exploring pandemic social norms that media promote ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Epidemic Illusions

    On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

    by Eugene T Richardson ...
    A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities.In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • COVID-19

    Volume I: Global Pandemic, Societal Responses, Ideological Solutions

    Edited by J. Michael Ryan ...
    The SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the associated COVID-19 pandemic, is perhaps the greatest threat to life, and lifestyles, the world has known in more than a century. The scholarship included here provides critical insights into the ethics and ideologies, inequalities, and changed social understandings that lie at the heart of this pandemic. This volume maps out the ways in which the pandemic has ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Governing the Pandemic

    The Politics of Navigating a Mega-Crisis

    by Arjen Boin, Allan McConnell, Paul 't Hart ...
    This open access book offers unique insights into how governments and governing systems, particularly in advanced economies, have responded to the immense challenges of managing the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing disease COVID-19. Written by three eminent scholars in the field of the politics and policy of crisis management, it offers a unique ‘bird’s eye’ view of the immense logistical and ... Read more

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  • Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19

    by Clare Birchall, Peter Knight ...
    Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on the US and the UK.The book combines digital methods analysis of large datasets assembled from social media with politically and culturally contextualised close readings informed by cultural studies. In contrast to other ... Read more

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  • Keywords for Media Studies

    Edited by Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Book 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Maarif Global Education Series
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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

    Edited by Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Bartłomiej Łódzki ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Carol Azungi Dralega, Angella Napakol ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume extensively discusses COVID-19 but it also covers other epidemics, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as “silent” health crises such as ... Read more

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  • COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories

    QAnon, 5G, the New World Order and Other Viral Ideas

    by Wendy Welch, Ian Brodie, John Bodner ...
    As the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) spread around the world, so did theories, stories, and conspiracy beliefs about it. These theories infected communities from the halls of Congress to Facebook groups, spreading quickly in newspapers, on various social media and between friends. They spurred debate about the origins, treatment options and responses to the virus, creating distrust towards public ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Pandemic Communication

    Edited by Stephen M. Croucher, Audra Diers-Lawson ...
    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 ... Read more

    $60.99 USD