Book Launch (Online): Communicating COVID-19: Media, Trust, and Public Engagement

If you would like to join today's book launch online - please email nmrc@canberra.edu.au for zoom link.

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Join us to celebrate the book launch of Communicating COVID-19: Media, Trust, and Public Engagement (edited by Monique Lewis, Eliza Govender, Kate Holland) with readings and reflections by contributing Authors. 

Communicating COVID-19: Media, Trust, and Public Engagement (published by Palgrave in 2024) brings together scholars from around the world to explore, critique and better understand the ever-evolving communicative landscape of COVID-19. It offers perspectives from the disciplines of media and communication, journalism, public health and primary care, sociology, and political and behavioural science, which variously address the major issues that have confronted communicators during the pandemic. The book brings together scholars from 12 countries, who offer insights and analyses from pandemic communication experiences across multiple countries in the Global North and South. The edited collection follows on from Communicating COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Lewis, Govender & Holland, 2021).

Speakers:

• Kerry McCallum, Professor of Communication and Media Studies and Director, News & Media Research Centre – Introduction and Acknowledgement
• Jen Webb, Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts & Design – Launch of Book

• Kate Holland, Senior Research Fellow, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra

Kate will discuss how the book came about and provide an overview of the range of topics it covers.

• Ama de-Graft Aikins, British Academy Global Professor at the Institute for Academic Studies, University College London

‘What’s Up, Fellow Deadly Diseases?’ Creative Arts and Communicating COVID-19 in Ghana.

• Gerard Goggin, Professor of Media and Communications, Institute for Culture & Society, Western Sydney University

Communication and Disability in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

• Eliza Govender, Associate Professor and head of Department of the Centre for Communication, Media & Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal

COVID-19 Communication in South Africa.