This book addresses questions about the major impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on human communication and the ways in which the communication discipline has been impacted by and has responded to the conditions of the pandemic. Contributors examine both the personal and the university administrative level to discuss how the pandemic and its lockdowns and transition to online learning, among other consequences, impacted specific areas of scholarship within the communication discipline. Contributors represent a number of sub-disciplines and focus on important elements they have witnessed being influenced by pandemic responses, bringing to light the unique insights about the pandemic and its effect on human communication their sub-discipline affords them. They go on to explore how the pandemic has impacted, or will impact, the teaching of their subject area and provide future suggestions for research in that area. Sub-disciplines represented include interpersonal communication, family communication, nonverbal communication, health communication, military learners, communication administrators, and instructional communication concerns.

Listening Skills Contribute to Successful Careers and Relationships Written by a myriad of experts, including contributors to the International Journal of Listening and other academic journals, Listening Across Lives features a unique contextual approach to the study of listening. Each of Listening Across Lives' ten chapters examine listening through a specific context - many of which have never been addressed before. Listening Across Lives by Molly M. Stoltz, Karen P. Sodowsky, and Carl M. Cates: Promotes Comprehension! Chapter Introductions, Objectives, Key Terms, Summaries, Discussion Questions, and Activities help readers focus on important concepts. Analyzes listening skills in leadership, spiritual/religious, relational, organizational, education, health communication, and other contexts. Features a chapter dedicated to Listening Across Technologies. The chapter introduces students to the role of technology within the listening process, examines how listening spaces are created within various technological contexts, and discusses the negative & positive attributes.