Prelims

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Fuchs, C. (2021), "Prelims", Communicating COVID-19 (Society Now), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xi. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-720-720211016

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Communicating COVID-19

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Communicating COVID-19

Everyday Life, Digital Capitalism, and Conspiracy Theories in Pandemic Times

By

Christian Fuchs

University of Westminster, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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List of Tables

Table 1.1.	COVID-19 Infection and Death Statistics.
Table 2.1.	David Harvey's (2005b) Typology of Social Space.
Table 2.2.	Social Space in the Coronavirus Crisis.
Table 2.3.	Lefebvre's Distinction Between the Lived and the Living.
Table 2.4.	Five Types of the Means of Communication.
Table 4.1.	Sampling of Relevant Artefacts.
Table 5.1.	Data Sources Used in the Conducted Empirical Research.
Table 5.2.	The Coding Scheme Utilised in the Conducted Research.
Table 5.3.	descriptive Statistics of the Analysed Dataset.
Table 5.4.	Named Enemies in the Use of the Friend/Enemy Scheme; Total Number of Postings Using the Friend Enemy Scheme: N = 452, Listed are all Persons and Groups That in Total had More Than Ten Mentions.
Table 5.5.	The Ideological Square Model, Own Visualisation Based on van Dijk (1998, 267).
Table 6.1.	Exit Polls in the 2016 and 2020 US Presidential Elections Showing the Share of Voters Who Fall Into a Specific Category.
Table 6.2.	Sample of 19 Trump Tweets About COVID-19, Accessed on 19 December 2020, Numbers Are Given in Thousands.
Table 6.3.	Share of Weekly Deaths due to COVID-19, Pneumonia and Influenza in the United States, 2020.

List of Figures

Figure 2.1.	Everyday Life and Everyday Communication.
Figure 2.2.	Everyday Life and Everyday Communication in the Coronavirus Crisis.
Figure 3.1.	Breitbart's Spreading of Rush Limbaugh's COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory on Social Media, https://www.facebook.com/Breitbart/posts/rush-limbaugh-it-looks-like-the-coronavirus-is-being-weaponized-as-yet-another-e/10164646988865354/, Accessed on 28 March 2020.
Figure 6.1.	A Tweet by Donald Trump Containing Fabricated.
Figure 6.2.	Election Fraud Conspiracy Theory Tweets by Donald Trump.

Acknowledgement

Earlier versions of Chapter 2 and Chapter 3’s Section 3.3 have been previously published as a journal article that has been reproduced and built upon with kind permission of the journal tripleC (http://www.triple-c.at). Original source: Fuchs, C. (2020). Everyday life and everyday communication in coronavirus capitalism. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 18(1), 375–399. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1167

Book Chapters

Prelims

1 Introduction: Pandemic Times

2 Everyday Life and Everyday Communication in Coronavirus Capitalism

3 Conspiracy Theories as Ideology

4 Bill Gates Conspiracy Theories as Ideology in the Context of the COVID-19 Crisis

5 Users' Reactions to COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories on Social Media

6 Donald Trump and COVID-19 on Twitter

7 Conclusion: Digital Communication in Pandemic Times and Commontopia as the Potential Future of Communication and Society

Bibliography

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