Scholarship on COVID-19 Studies
Scholarly articles, chapters, books
Politicized Pandemic Narratives: A Case Study of Hong Kong
Fighting a Global Pandemic and Local Stigmatisation: War Metaphors in Presidential Update Speeches and Their Effect on Attitudes to COVID -19 (Patients) in Ghana
‘Mask Must Wear at All Times’: Top-down and Bottom-up MultilingualCOVID-Scape in Hong Kong as a Prime Site of Epidemiological and Public Health Knowledge (Re)Construction during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Do You Hear the People’s Nonsense? Performing Resistance in Pandemic-Era China
Martyrs in Masks: The ‘Battle-Hero-Saviour’ Story Grammar of COVID-19 Coverage in Chinese Communist Party Media
South Asian COVID-19 Memoirs: Mourning and Erasure of ‘Grievable Lives
‘A Plague Broke out Among Them’: Reflections on the Bible and the Pandemic
COVID, Crisis, and the Search for Story in the Platform Age
Problematizing Cultural Difference: YouTube Narratives about COVID-19 by South Korean and American Vloggers
The Pandemic Puzzle—Reviewing the Existing Pieces, Searching for the Missing Ones
The Superhero and the Salted Fish: The Aesthetic of the Ordinary in ‘Doomsday’ Chinese Web Fiction
Money Can Buy Health’ Risk and Protection in Hong Kong’s COVID-19 Advertisement-Scape
Extremist Language in Anti-COVID-19 Conspiracy Discourse on Facebook
“It’s (Not) Like the Flu”: Expert Narratives and the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States
Mobilizing Stories of Illness in Digital Contexts: A Critical Approach to Narrative, Voice, and Visibility
A Sour Taste of Sick Chronicity: Pandemic Time and the Violence of Returning to Normal
The World Poetics of Lockdown in Pandemic Poetry
Trust and Cooperation through Social Media: COVID-19Translations for Chinese Communities in Melbourne
A Deadly Infodemic: Social Media and the ID-19 Misinformation
Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis
Poetry in Crisis: Its Writing and Circulation during the Pandemic in China
Unmasking Inequality in our Pandemic Narratives
A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
Love in the Time of Corona: Heterosexual Romance, Space, and Society in Japanese Fiction on COVID-19
COVID-19 Narratives and Layered Temporality
Embodied Dread in COVID-19 Images and Narratives
On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years: An Investigation
Why Do Some Get Hooked on Pandemic Terror and Phobic Energy?: Aeon Essays
Queer and COVID-19 Positive: Contagion, Suspicion, and Stigma
Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct.
Self-construction via Texts: COVID-19 and Child Fiction
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Socio-Economic and Geopolitical Implications
Western and Chinese Media Representation of Africa in COVID-19 News Coverage
The Meaning of Freedom After COVID-19
Threat of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Pakistan: The Need for Measures to Neutralize Misleading Narratives
Soap and Water & Common Sense: The Definitive Guide to Viruses, Bacteria, Parasites, and Disease
Soap and Water & Common Sense: The Definitive Guide to Viruses, Bacteria, Parasites, and Disease
Love and Social Distancing in the Time of COVID-19: The Philosophy and Literature of Pandemics
Religion and Faith Perception in a Pandemic of COVID‐19
Poetics in the Time of Pandemic. There is Always Going to be a Before and an After
Online News Media Framing of COVID-19 Pandemic: Probing the Initial Phases of the Disease Outbreak in International Media
Information Authoritarianism vs. Information Anarchy: A Comparison of Information Ecosystems in Mainland China and Hong Kong during the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 in Manitoba: Public Policy Responses to the First Wave
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