This book addresses questions about the major impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on human communication and the ways in which the communication discipline has been impacted by and has responded to the conditions of the pandemic. Contributors examine both the personal and the university administrative level to discuss how the pandemic and its lockdowns and transition to online learning, among other consequences, impacted specific areas of scholarship within the communication discipline. Contributors represent a number of sub-disciplines and focus on important elements they have witnessed being influenced by pandemic responses, bringing to light the unique insights about the pandemic and its effect on human communication their sub-discipline affords them. They go on to explore how the pandemic has impacted, or will impact, the teaching of their subject area and provide future suggestions for research in that area. Sub-disciplines represented include interpersonal communication, family communication, nonverbal communication, health communication, military learners, communication administrators, and instructional communication concerns.
This book addresses questions about the major impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on human communication and the ways in which the communication discipline has been impacted by and has responded to the conditions of the pandemic. Contributors examine both the personal and the university administrative level to discuss how the pandemic and its lockdowns and transition to online learning, among other consequences, impacted specific areas of scholarship within the communication discipline. Contributors represent a number of sub-disciplines and focus on important elements they have witnessed being influenced by pandemic responses, bringing to light the unique insights about the pandemic and its effect on human communication their sub-discipline affords them. They go on to explore how the pandemic has impacted, or will impact, the teaching of their subject area and provide future suggestions for research in that area. Sub-disciplines represented include interpersonal communication, family communication, nonverbal communication, health communication, military learners, communication administrators, and instructional communication concerns.
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1Communication in the Time of COVID-19: Personal and Administrative Perspectives on the Pandemic
Jim A. Kuyper
Chapter 2Explaining Turbulence, Coping, and Resilience in Romantic Relationships during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jennifer Theiss and Hannah Jones
Chapter 3Family Communication and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Pamela J. Lannutti and Erin Sahlstein Parcell
Chapter 4Nonverbal Artifacts for Protection: When Aesthetics Become Armour
Marcus Hickson III and Don W. Stacks
Chapter 5Health Communication, Relationships, and Medicine: Considerations for Transformation and Shifts in Understanding from COVID-19
Ashley P. Duggan and Elizabeth M. Glowacki
Chapter 6“Some of You Have Never Had the Government Ruin Your Plans and It Shows”: Understanding Military-Affiliated Learner Experiences During COVID-19 Through Uncertainty Reduction Theory
Victoria McDermott and Amy May
Chapter 7 Leading in a Pandemic: The Perspectives of Communication Administrators
Carl M. Cates, Deanna P. Dannels, Helen Tate, Timothy P. Mottet, Joseph P. Mazer, Sandra S. Harper, and Ann L. Darling
Chapter 8The COVID-19 Shuffle: A Dance Of Adaptability and Flexibility For Instructional Communication Through Perceived Immediacy, Teacher Clarity, and Teacher Confirmation
Michelle Epstein Garland and Scott Christen
About the Contributors
Jim A. Kuypers is professor of rhetoric and political communication at Virginia Tech.
"From relationships to the military to classroom teaching, the
COVID-19 pandemic has impacted how we communicate. Using a
multi-disciplinary approach, this book lays the groundwork for
understanding the changes the pandemic has wrought on all of us,
and will be a useful baseline text for scholars in the future. The
essays contained in this book have captured (and encapsulated)
these historical changes in real time, exploring interpersonal and
organizational communication in the age of COVID. A must read for
those who want to better understand how the events of 2020-2022
have affected the ways we communicate (or don't), and a
precautionary roadmap for the next pandemic (lest we forget,
again)."--David S. Silverman, Kansas State University
"Jim A. Kuypers has collected a welcome set of authors in this book
that present chapters that explore what we have all lived through
over the past two years of the pandemic. Communication theory and
knowledge are brought to bear on many aspects of life that we have
dealt with: family, relationships, work, and teaching. Why did some
relationships grow stronger during the stress of the pandemic,
while others declined or ended? How have families adapted their
communication during the pandemic? What does wearing masks mean or
communicate? Verbally, how do we talk about the virus with
significant others in our lives? This book gives us a great start
on understanding how much we can learn about communication in our
future."--John Meyer, University of Southern Mississippi
"So many elements of communication have been fundamentally upended
by the COVID-19 pandemic. The scholars who contribute to this
important text help us to understand these changes in multiple
contexts, from family to governmental to administrative. What's
even more exciting is that the authors join theory and practice to
offer translatable teaching, policy, and research suggestions and
future directions." --Jennifer L. Bevan, Chapman University
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