[Commlist] Call for Submissions : Containing COVID-19, the Mobile Way: A Global Comparison

/Call for Submissions/

*Containing COVID-19, the Mobile Way: A Global Comparison*

/Xiaoge Xu and Gloria Khamkar/

To be published by Palgrave

As a sister volume to /Containing COVID-19, the Mobile Way: Experience 
and Expertise from China/, this volume concentrates on comparative 
studies of the global efforts in leveraging mobile to battle the 
pandemic. As the battle still goes on, it is imperative to compare and 
learn from each other globally different experiences and expertise in 
containing the pandemic.

As the central theme of this volume is how mobile has been leveraged to 
battle the pandemic in different countries, we welcome chapter 
contributors from around the world to contribute a country-specific 
chapter to investigate and explore the unique experience and expertise 
from different countries.

The suggested topics include, not limited to, the following:

(1) how governments in different countries have leveraged mobile to 
fight the pandemic,

(2) the public responses via mobile to the pandemic and its related issues,

(3) mobile learning and mobile teaching during the pandemic,

(4) mobile health communication during the pandemic,

(5) mobile healthcare during the pandemic,

(6) how people manage to work remotely via mobile,

(7) how people manage to work creatively via mobile,

(8) the importance and issues related to mobile connectivity during the 
pandemic,

(9) how mobile games and eSports fare during the pandemic,

(10) mobile economic performance during the pandemic,

(11) the role and impact of mobile journalism in fighting the pandemic,

(12) city storytelling during the pandemic,

(13) how diaspora, migrants, or immigrants leveraged mobile to fight the 
pandemic,

(14) mobile privacy and security during the pandemic,

(15) mobile public space during pandemic,

(16) challenges and opportunities ahead for the mobile industry

This project is designed to satisfy the global needs to learn from each 
other to enhance the global efforts in fighting the pandemic or any 
other public health crises.

Each submission should be original and unpublished and strictly follow 
the APA style and be kept between 5000-8000 words (excluding references).

Please submit your chapter proposal to the co-editors by 1 September 2021:

Xiaoge Xu: (xiaoge.xu /at/ nottingham.edu.cn) 
<mailto:(xiaoge.xu /at/ nottingham.edu.cn)> and Gloria Khamkar: 
(gkhamkar /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk) <mailto:(gkhamkar /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk)>

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