Organizational Communication and Technology in the Time of Coronavirus: Ethnographies from the First Year of the Pandemic

The pandemic has created a crisis that has no equivalent in recent history, leading to a wide range of disruption across various social strata, highlighting and reinforcing inequality, and leading to profound organizational shifts. In this book, organizational communication scholars grapple with the implications of the pandemic for work and organizations, examining the immediate impact on their personal lives in an ethnographic narrative, but also theorising what the long term implications of COVID-19 will be. The book also explores the devastating impact of the virus on healthcare workers, on BIPOC entrepreneurs, and on people in developing economies.

A timely, innovative work, this book will appeal to academics studying organizational communication, organizational responses to crisis, ethnographies, and alternative research methods.

​Larry Browning is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Communication Studies, the University of Texas at Austin, in the USA, and Adjunct Professor at Nord University Business School.

Jan-Oddvar Sørnesis Professor of Organizational Communication and Management at Nord University Business School, Norway, and Adjunct Professor at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Peer Jacob Svenkerud is the Rector and Professor at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and Adjunct Professor at Nord University Business School.