{"product_id":"identity-in-the-covid-19-years-communication-crisis-and-ethics-9781501393679","title":"Identity in the Covid-19 Years: Communication, Crisis, and Ethics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIdentity in the Covid-19 Years\u003c\/i\u003e explores the how the COVID-19 pandemic has been represented in media, communication and culture, and the role these changes have played in renewing how we understand identity, engage in social belonging and relate ethically to each other and the world. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on how we perform our identities, engage in social belonging, and communicate with each other. Understanding the onset of the pandemic as a moment experienced as cultural rupture, Cover provides a framework for understanding how selfhood, belonging, relationships and perceptions of time and space have undergone a disruption that not only is damaging to continuity and stability but also provides positive value through renewal and the re-making of the self and ways of living ethically. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on philosophic, media and cultural studies approaches, this book describes how networks of mutual care and global interdependency have been powerfully drawn out by the experience of the pandemic, yet also disavowed in some settings in favour of a problem individualism and sustained inequalities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe roles of disruption and interdependency are examined across an array of pandemic-related topics, including health communication, apocalyptic storytelling, lockdowns and immobilities, mask-wearing, social distancing and new practices touch, anti-vaccination discourses, and frameworks for mourning the lost past and the uncertain future. By focusing on the impact of the pandemic on identity, this work explains and revisits theories of belonging and ethics to help us understand how new ways of perceiving our vulnerability may lead to more positive, inclusive and ethical ways of living.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRob Cover \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Digital Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He leads a number of major funded research projects on young people, health and wellbeing and digital and broadcast media, publishing widely on topics related to digital cultures in the context of social identities, young people, suicide prevention and resilience. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eQueer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives?\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003eVulnerability and Exposure: Footballer Scandals, Masculinity and Ethics \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), \u003ci\u003eDigital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self \u003c\/i\u003e(2016) and \u003ci\u003eEmergent Identities: New Sexualities, Gender and Relationships in a Digital Era\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003eFlirting in the Era of #MeToo: Negotiating Intimacies\u003c\/i\u003e (with A Bartlett and K Clarke;2019), and \u003ci\u003ePopulation, Mobility and Belonging: Understanding Population Concepts in Media, Culture and Society \u003c\/i\u003e(2020).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50393058902290,"sku":"9781501393679","price":142.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_77277f5f-2b08-46ed-9f83-9ea0a64c518b.jpg?v=1728984125","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/identity-in-the-covid-19-years-communication-crisis-and-ethics-9781501393679","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}