Personal and Administrative Perspectives from the Communication Discipline During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jim A. Kuypers

doi:10.5771/9781793643643

Summary

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.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4363-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4364-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 192
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1: Communication in the Time of COVID-19: Personal and Administrative Perspectives on the Pandemic No access Pages 1 - 8
1. Turbulence in Romantic Relationships as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic No access
2. Resilience, Relationship Maintenance, and Communal Coping during COVID-19 No access
3. The Role of the Communication Discipline in Shaping Research and Teaching in Response to the Pandemic No access
4. Future Directions of Relationship Research during COVID-19 No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. COVID-19 Global Pandemic Impact on Families No access
2. Theoretical Perspectives for Family Communication and the Pandemic No access
3. Communication Privacy Management Theory No access
4. Relational Turbulence Theory No access
5. Theory of Resilience and Relational Load No access
6. Relational Dialectics Theory No access
7. Pandemic-Informed Family Diversity in Teaching and Research No access
8. Teaching Suggestions No access
9. Future Research on Family Communication and COVID-19 No access
10. Notes No access
1. Nonverbal Communication No access
2. Stigmatization and the Pandemic No access
3. Types of Artifacts No access
4. Artifacts as Self-Presentation via Physical Appearance No access
5. Artifacts as Self-Presentation of Body Image No access
6. Artifacts as Body Hair in Self-Presentation No access
7. Artifacts as Hand Protection in Projecting Self-Presentation No access
8. Use of Artifacts as Accessories or Additions No access
9. Face Protection No access
10. Comments on Teaching and Future Research No access
11. Future Research No access
12. Summary No access
13. Notes No access
1. Inadequate Tools and Inadequate Language: Sacrifice and Quest for Understanding No access
2. The (I’M NOT A) Hero’s Journey with New Rules No access
3. Health/Illness and Close Relationships Are Interconnected No access
4. Language and Understanding No access
5. Departure from Normal/Disorientation No access
6. Renegotiating Relationships No access
7. Redefining Roles No access
8. Navigating Identity and Loneliness No access
9. Initiation/Transformation No access
10. Social Support No access
11. Social Support and Health Outcomes No access
12. The Return Stage/Journey Is Not Actually Over/Creating a New Normal No access
13. Considerations for Teaching and Research No access
14. Notes No access
1. Uncertainty Reduction Theory No access
2. Uncertainty Reduction Strategies No access
3. Pandemic-Related Uncertainty as It Connects to the Military No access
4. Who Is the MAL? No access
5. Deployments and Stop Movements Related to COVID-19 No access
6. Societal Impacts No access
7. Military Experiences in Higher Education No access
8. Recommendations No access
9. Research No access
10. Looking Forward No access
11. Notes No access
1. A Brief Review of Relevant Literature No access
2. Question 1: What Were the Biggest Challenges on Your Campus in the Early Shutdown Period? How Did Those Challenges Change Over the Year?10 No access
3. Question 2: How Did Information Exchange and Distribution Work? What Worked Well? What Did Not? No access
4. Question 3: If You Had One Do-Over in Your Current Role during the COVID-19 Period, What Would You Do-Over and Why? No access
5. Question 4: What Have You Instituted during the COVID-19 Period that Has Worked, You Hope To Keep, and Why? No access
6. Question 5: How Do You Believe COVID-19 Will Change Academic Delivery/Process, and so on? No access
7. Questions 6 and 7: Based on Your Experience in Your Role with COVID-19, What Will You Change in Terms of Future Planning for Crises, and so on? What Policy Changes Do You Hope Will Continue to Be Discussed? No access
8. Implications for Teaching No access
9. Future Suggestions for Research and Administration No access
10. Notes No access
1. Contextualization of the Concepts: Immediacy, Clarity, and Confirmation No access
2. Overcommunication No access
3. Perceived Immediacy No access
4. Communication Behaviors to Enhance Perceived Immediacy No access
5. Teacher Clarity No access
6. Communication Behaviors to Enhance Teacher Clarity No access
7. Teacher Confirmation No access
8. Communication Behaviors to Enhance Teacher Confirmation No access
9. Conclusion: Addressing Teaching and Future Research No access
10. Notes No access
Index No access Pages 177 - 186
About the Contributors No access Pages 187 - 192