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