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Communicators and COVID-19

The dramatic impacts of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 on everything from public health to the economy, education to accurate information highlights the vital role of communications in society. The journalists on the front lines of the health crisis, strategic and political communicators doing crisis communication, technology experts bringing society online for work, school and social connection, and video game designers and filmmakers keeping people engaged and informed.

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Communications

Society’s Dependence on the Internet: 5 Cyber Issues the Coronavirus Lays Bare

The coronavirus pandemic lays bare the many vulnerabilities created by society’s dependence on the internet.

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Pluto the schnauzer

Communications

Take It from Pluto the Schnauzer: Comedy Will Help Us Through the Coronavirus Crisis

Professor Caty Borum Chattoo writes that comedy plays an important societal role when we are working through dire, complex social problems.

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district wire news story on making facemasks

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SOC Professors Get Creative to Teach, Create Community Online

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Man hands bag of donated food to another man

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SOC Student’s ‘Operación Frijol’ Feeds Hungry Families During Covid-19

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Frank Benenati

Communications ·

From Coronavirus Response to Climate Change, For Frank Benenati Communication is Key

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student working from home with laptop on the couch

Communications ·

Adapting to the “New Normal”

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SOC scholars meet online

Communications ·

For SOC Researchers, Working Remotely is Business as Usual

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