Editorial for the Special Issue: “Communication Research on Coping Strategies During Global Crises”

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The recent environmental, social, political, natural, health-related, and other crises have wreaked havoc on populations across the globe.Food shortages and insecurities (e.g., in Sudan), refugee crises and global migration (e.g., in Afghanistan), earthquakes (e.g., in Turkey and Syria), droughts (e.g., in Africa and Western U.S.), floods (e.g., in Pakistan), geopolitical instability, terrorism and insurgency (e.g., in Afghanistan and Yemen), war (e.g., Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas), rise in new and unknown diseases across the world, and social inequalities have created dire and stressful conditions for people in these situations.This Communication Studies special issue features 11 original articles from scholars in various parts of the world, including Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas who shed light on the role of communication in coping with a wide range of crises.Specifically, the articles focus on various communication contexts such as mass, health, environmental, and digital contexts, among others.The contributions to this special issue cover topics that range from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress and coping strategies and the importance of rituals to identity negotiation, interpersonal communication, and organizational communication among education leaders and those employed in the nonprofit sector, and navigating "invisible disability" and challenges among those who were medically unable to wear masks.Wolfers et al. looked at the role of media in stress management as people experienced COVID-19 lockdowns.Foulds et al.'s study looked at how educational mass media may act as an interventional aid to promote understanding and development of coping strategies among displaced children across the U.S., Latin America, and the Middle East.Yang studied young adults who experienced posttraumatic growth in the aftermath of a natural disaster in China.Davatkhah's work on climate activism examined heritage performances in art venues around the world to understand how such demonstrations further messages related to climate change and global warming.Nocheva looked at the role of participatory theater in influencing collective action in times of crises and natural disasters.Yet another article by Koselioren and Cakir examined doomscrolling on social media and its impact on positive and negative coping strategies during the Turkey earthquake in 2023.Comello et al.'s article on health disparities spans the boundaries of health and organizational communication.The authors urge that diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in the workplace need to be considered as a public health crisis and should be dealt with as such in health communication scholarship, including health message design.Ewing and Cooper

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