Inside or Out, Here or Elsewhere? Filming Locations in Pandemic Times
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Helen Morgan Parmett and Ipek A. Çelik Rappas discuss the impact of Covid-19 on domestic and international film and television production.
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Where We Care: Local Attention in a Platformized Pandemic
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Scott Rodgers explores the novelties and continuities of emergent, very local uses of social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what they indicate about our deepening interdependencies with platforms.
China under Lockdown: Social Media and Labor Conditions during the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Anan Zhou examines the use of social media and labor conditions in China during the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID-19, Labor Mobility, and Care Work in China
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Yang Zhan examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on labor mobility, particularly for service workers, in China's growing economy.
The Silent Hecatomb: Pandemic in Rio’s Favelas
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Luís Costa discusses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on residents of the favelas in Rio's divided city.
The Last Chronicle: From Peking University Students to the Indigenous People of Alto Solimões
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Francisco Foot Hardman documents actions of solidarity from faculty and undergraduate students at Peking University to indigenous communities in Brazil.
South Africa’s Wider Divide in the Disaster State
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Hui Jiang discusses the tension between socio-economic rights and civil rights in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Copying and COVID-19 in Havana, Cuba
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In the first of our global reports on COVID-19, Laura-Zoë Humphreys shows how the disruption of person-to-person media distribution networks has affected urban sociality in Havana, Cuba.