Introduction: Pandemic Times

Abstract

This chapter introduces the goal of the book, namely to answer the question: How have society and the ways we communicate changed in the COVID-19 pandemic crisis?

It outlines the context, namely the COVID-19 pandemic's transformation of society and analyses what role capitalism plays in this role as context of the pandemic that is not its cause but a condition and that does not determine but conditions the effects of the pandemic on society.

Citation

Fuchs, C. (2021), "Introduction: Pandemic Times", Communicating COVID-19 (Society Now), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-720-720211001