Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech and Bartlomiej Lódzki -- Dilemmas and uncertainty : seven research challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic / Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech -- The Uberisation of higher education : datafied dynamics in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic / Göran Bolin -- An ecological approach : the infodemic, pandemic, and COVID-19 / Fausto Colombo -- Research project reformulation : a narrative on the design and methodological changes implemented during the emergency / Leopoldina Fortunati -- Broadcasters' strategy case studies : modification of product offers as a challenge in times of plague and survival / Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska -- Natural language processing and statistic : the first six months of the COVID-19 infodemic in Croatia / Slobodan Beliga, Sanda Martincic-Ipšic, Mihaela Matešic and Ana Meštrovic -- News shareability analysis : global television channels as sources of information during the pandemic / Bartlomiej Lódzki -- Narrative mode of analysis : from media texts to pandemic memoryscape / Nevena Dakovic -- Diaries : the lockdown narratives of individuals / Valentina Marinescu, Bianca Fox, Ramona Marinache, Daniela Roventa Frumusani and Silvia Branea -- Media-aesthetic approach : a global visualization of the pandemic / Marina Zagidullina -- Qualitative and quantitative social media content analysis : TikTok usage by the World Health Organisation during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic / Roksana M. Zdunek -- Mixed analysis of user activity, content, and networks : Twitter's information cascades on conspiratorial pandemics / Sara Monaci and Simone Persico -- Participative research : the case of media usage by children due to the COVID-19 pandemic / Anda Rodideal -- Diaries : researching lockdown social distancing in the digital age / Manuela Farinosi and Chiara Piccolo -- Search trends analysis : how the COVID-19 pandemic affected other health campaigns / Ricardo Matos de Araújo Rios and Edson Carlo Brandão Silva -- Sentiment analysis, topic modelling and social network analysis : COVID-19, protest movements, and the Polish tweetosphere / Andrzej Jarynowski and Daniel Platek -- Various dynamics of the COVID-19 world of media and communication research / Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech.

"This truly interdisciplinary volume brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore changes in the significance of media and communication in the era of pandemic. The book answers two interrelated questions: how media and communication reality changed during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how media and communication were effectively studied during this time. The book presents changes in media and communication in three areas: media production, media content and media usage contexts. It then describes the theoretical and practical, methodological, technical, organizational, and ethical challenges in conducting research in circumstances of sudden change in research conditions, emergency situations and developing crises. Drawing on various theoretical studies and empirical research, the volume illustrates the principles and results of applying diverse research methods to the changing role of media in a pandemic and offers good practices and guidance to address the problems in implementing research projects in a time of sudden difficulties and challenges. This diverse and interdisciplinary book will be of significance to scholars and researchers in media studies, communication studies, research methods, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies"--

English.