Pandemic Media

With its unprecedented scale and consequences the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a variety of new configurations of media. Responding to demands for information synchronization regulation and containment these pandemic media reorder social interactions spaces and temporalities thus contributing to a reconfiguration of media technologies and the cultures and polities with which they are entangled. Highlighting media's adaptability malleability and scalability under the conditions of a pandemic the contributions to this volume track and analyze how media emerge operate and change in response to the global crisis and provide elements toward an understanding of the post-pandemic world to come.