Browsing Faculty-Curated Special Collections by Type "Book Chapter"

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    • Balcony Stories 
      Ramadurai, Charukesi (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      When social distancing is a byword, apartment balconies serve as windows to the world.
    • Caught In-Between: Tokyo Terminal 
      Kim, Viktoriya; Babovic, Aleksandra (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      This op-ed introduces how people, who stayed in Japan on short-term visa ended up living in one of the Tokyo international airports, as their flights back to Russia were cancelled and the help they received from local ...
    • Choir Quarantined – Beyond Music Technology and Community building 
      Kannikeswaran, Kanniks (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      The quarantine silences our collective musical voice, but a bright world awaits us.
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Times 
      Dave, Nalini M. (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      How faith in God can help you make the best of a difficult situation
    • Eyeliner 
      Mark, Lauren (Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      This piece is an invitation into one woman’s navigations of COVID-19 alongside the threat and manifestations of viral racism as a U.S. based Asian woman.
    • Finding Home in A Pandemic 
      Popli, Ritika (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      I briefly describe my experience of how the pandemic has changed the meaning of home.
    • Food for the soul: How immigrants use food blogs to heal during times of crisis 
      Paul, Newly (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      Virtual communities built around food help immigrants cope in times of crises.
    • Home Alone During a Pandemic 
      Chattopadhyay, Sumana (Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      In this essay I reflect about my experiences navigating the COVID-19 quarantine within the confines of my home, alone in a foreign land far away from my family.
    • I Just Called to Say I Love You 
      Patwardhan, Nandini (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      I mistakenly thought the song “I just called to say I love you” was about a dystopian future, but it turned out to have the perfect message for the dystopian present.
    • Life in lockdown: Diary of a Pakistani student in Beijing 
      Khan, Azmat (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      The essay illustrates my initial state of disorientation but also my struggle and hope for new life during lockdown
    • Life on Cloud Nine: How Entertainment During Mass Quarantine in China Provides Potential Insight into the Future of Social Interactions 
      Ren, Jingqiu; Morris,Theresa (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      This opinion piece examines the new format of producing entertainment shows with zero physical contact in China as a result of mass quarantine due to COVID-19 and explores how it may transform our taken-for-granted social ...
    • Mercy 
      Agarwal, Vedika (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      A story of hope and the power to set yourself free
    • Race-Making of COVID-19 in Early Mainstream Frames: The Production of the Epidemic(ed) Transnational Citizen 
      Kaur-Gill, Satveer (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      In adopting discourse tracing as method, this piece shares my initial insight on the reporting of the COVID-19 outbreak by mainstream press (Singapore).
    • The Same Old New Normal 
      D'Souza, Ryan Arron (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      The author tries to make sense of the ideas and practices normalized during quarantine.
    • Stressed over dessert 
      Subramanian, Priya (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      An everyday act of baking and sharing gets complicated during a pandemic!
    • "This Seems Familiar": Survivalism & Health-Mindedness in Emerging New Normal 
      Lemish, Peter (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      The totalizing security mindset acted upon in Israel is insightful into how an anticipated post-Covid-19 New Normal that prioritizes health-mindedness may fare.
    • Voicing Cohesion in the midst of COVID 
      Mani, Charulatha (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      I had to lose myself in the thick of the COVID to even begin to fathom the true value of the human voice.
    • We Have Already Overpowered the Beast: What Fear Taught Me 
      Kasem, Diana (Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )
      We should open more borders of global meaningful friendships, produce and teach more integrative and holistic communication, and make more efforts towards helping our vulnerable members.