Overview
Provides a valuable insight into how COVID-19 narratives are being constructed by organizations and individuals
Uses ethnography to provide an in-depth, intimate examination of a transforming society
Explores the impact of the pandemic on marginalized people, including BIPOC entrepreneurs, and healthcare workers
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The pandemic has created a crisis that has no equivalent in recent history, leading to a wide range of disruption across various social strata, highlighting and reinforcing inequality, and leading to profound organizational shifts. In this book, organizational communication scholars grapple with the implications of the pandemic for work and organizations, examining the immediate impact on their personal lives in an ethnographic narrative, but also theorising what the long term implications of COVID-19 will be. The book also explores the devastating impact of the virus on healthcare workers, on BIPOC entrepreneurs, and on people in develo** economies.
A timely, innovative work, this book will appeal to academics studying organizational communication, organizational responses to crisis, ethnographies, and alternative research methods.
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Theorizing the Present: This Is How to See It Now
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Self-Organization a Response: Beyond Academic Civility
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Communication Philosophy: Apprehending Opportunity in Time of Crisis
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Techno-Ethnography: Using Social Science Methods to Study the Virus
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Larry D. Browning is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Communication Studies, the University of Texas at Austin, in the USA, and Adjunct Professor at Nord University Business School.
Jan-Oddvar Sørnes is Professor of Organizational Communication and Management at Nord University Business School, Norway, and Adjunct Professor at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.
Peer Jacob Svenkerud is the Rector and Professor at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and Adjunct Professor at Nord University Business School.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Organizational Communication and Technology in the Time of Coronavirus
Book Subtitle: Ethnographies from the First Year of the Pandemic
Editors: Larry D. Browning, Jan-Oddvar Sørnes, Peer Jacob Svenkerud
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94814-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94813-9Published: 16 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94816-0Published: 17 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94814-6Published: 14 June 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 436
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Organization, Corporate Communication/Public Relations