Coping with COVID-19, the Mobile Way

Xiaoge Xu (BA, BA, MS, PhD) is an Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, where he is the founding director of the Institute for Mobile Studies. He is the editor-in-chief of IGI Global's Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication book series. His research interests include mobile journalism, mobile storytelling, mobile experience, city storytelling, mobile technologies for sustainable development, and mobile learning.

This edited book examines the impact of COVID-19 on selected areas of mobile studies, ranging from mobile public spaces to mobile workspaces. This book offers insights into how to leverage mobile devices, as well as features and communication to contain the pandemic. Specifically, it highlights the Chinese experience and lessons, and the country's expertise in social capital management during the health crisis, governance of information flow and order, combating fake news and the infodemic, documenting the pandemic, and lessons learned from mobile health communication. It also discusses how small companies can survive the death of foreign trade during the pandemic. 

Looking beyond the pandemic, the book also explores the challenges and opportunities posed by the pandemic by investigating mobile learning, mobile journalism, mobile marketing and mobile workspaces. Given its scope, this book will enhance the global efforts in fighting the pandemic and contribute to the current body of knowledge on how to leverage mobile technologies to enhance public health communication during public health crises.      

Section I               Coping with COVID-19: The WeChat Way

Chapter 2             "You Wait for Me for a Moment": Mobile Usage of the Elderly Female Adults in China to

Cope with COVID-19

Chapter 3             COVID-19 Fake News and Older Adults: Predicating News Credibility Evaluation 

Chapter 4             Coping with COVID-19: The WeChat Way

Section II             Reporting on COVID-19, the Mobile Way

Chapter 5            Predicting News Engagement on Douyin: The Case of COVID-19 Coverage

Chapter 6             Reporting COVID-19 via Crowdsourcing: The US vs. China

Section III            Coping with COVID-19: Information Disorder and Personal Privacy

Chapter 7             Typology and Governance of Information Disorder Related to COVID-19 in China

Chapter 8             Public Health vs. Personal Privacy during COVID-19 in China 

Section IV            Coping with COVID-19: The Survival Efforts  

Chapter 9             Digital Transformation or New Digital Divide 2.0?

Chapter 10          Mobile Marketing and Innovation: Saviors for Tourism during the Pandemic

Chapter 11          From Epicenter to Hero City: How Wuhan Survived the Pandemic

Section V             Beyond COVID-19: Collaborative Mobile Learning and Mobile Workplaces

Chapter 12          Collaborative Learning during the Pandemic: The Role of Mobile Devices