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Pivoting in times of the coronavirus

Abstract:
Despite the disruption the coronavirus pandemic has caused in academia, research has not ground to a halt. On the contrary, the early months of the pandemic saw a real boost in productivity in many scientific fields, with many researchers starting to work on COVID-related projects. This essay addresses this “pivot to COVID” in the fields of journalism and communication studies. Interrogating potential reasons for this shift to coronavirus-related research, it identifies four concurrent push and pull factors that co-determine how research agendas are being set in these fields. It ends by outlining some of the potential implications of such a pivot for the quality and long-term direction of research in journalism and communication scholarship.
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Published
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10.14619/0085

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University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Politics & Int Relations
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Publisher:
Meson Press
Host title:
Pandemic Media: Preliminary Notes Toward an Inventory
Pages:
61-67
Chapter number:
5
Publication date:
2021-01-23
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9783957960092
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9783957960085


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English
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1140021
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2020-10-28
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