Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
