Digital Communities Post-Pandemic

Social(ly Distanced) Media
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-06065-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

This edited volume examines how communication within digital communities has shifted during and since the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020. It explores how pandemic lockdowns magnified the importance and impact of social media and other digital platforms in daily life, probing how pandemic communication may have permanently altered digital practices.

The book traces the push and pull between digital communications companies and their communities of users in the years after 2020, when the aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic were still fundamentally shaping discourse communities and communication practices. Offering a range of theoretical perspectives, the chapters present a parallel of pandemic experiences, communication modes, and community seeking/building.

Exploring post-pandemic communication change, social connections, wellbeing, misinformation, identity, and digital inequality, this book is a key supplementary resource for academics and students interested in these themes from across media studies, communication studies, digital sociology, digital media, and the digital humanities.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, Amanda C. Roth

Du Val, Sophia E.

Paperman, Alexis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Front Matter, Foreword, Preface, Part II: Social(ly Distanced) Media, 1. “Ulysses on Zoom: How an Online Reading Group Created Community through Joyce's ‘Book of Wisdom’”

, 2. Voices in the Dark: The Power of Podcasting in Unprecedented Times, 3. Taking the Road Never Traveled: Mapping GeoGuessr’s Progress in Cultivating Virtual Community and Contextualizing Place, 4. The Lost World: Music Fans, At-Home Concerts, and the Fall of Twitter, 5. What We Can Learn from Virtual Influencers on Social Media, 6. Online Analogs to Offline Connections: How COVID-19 Clarified Private Social Media, 7. TikTok and the Creation of Silos: How TikTok’s Algorithm Disrupts and Impacts Culture and Industries, 8. The Pandemic and Beyond: Teens in Online School, Social Media, and Gaming, 9. Navigating the Information Landscape: Learning, Sharing, and Trust in an Age of Misinformation, 10. “Riding in Sub-Cloud Cars with Squirrels, or, the Virtues of Not Going Viral”, Part III: End Matter, Conclusion: Nostalgia and Culture Shift

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda C. Roth Clark, MLIS, PhD, is Dean of the Library & Special Programs at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. She holds a doctorate from The University of Alabama, with a dissertation focused on the communicative aspects of artists' books. She holds four additional master's degrees and co-authored several books on architecture with her father, Leland M. Roth.

Sophia E. Du Val, MSLIS is a faculty librarian at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA. Her research interests include the pedagogical value of zines and factors influencing undergraduate students’ library use & information skills.

Alexis Paperman, MLIS is the circulation supervisor at the Newberg Public Library. She has worked in libraries for 10 years. Her primary goal is supporting the accessibility and growth of the library community.