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- Title
Experiencing a Global Pandemic: The Power of Public Storytelling as Antenarrative in Crisis Communication.
- Authors
Baniya, Sweta; Chen Chen
- Abstract
Purpose: This article explores the role of storytelling in public spaces during the global pandemic. We explore how storytelling can be used as a powerful medium of communicating crisis and addressing injustices during the pandemic. Method: We conducted a rhetorical analysis of the digital stories, images, and podcasts from UnCoVer Initiative in China and Nepal PhotoProject in Nepal focusing on how these stories act as an antenarrative to the dominant pandemic narrative during a crisis. Results: We found that both platforms acted as transnational and transcultural coalitional spaces, revealing and rejecting injustices through critical and reflexive storytelling, building collective knowledge on navigating the crisis, and developing solidarity through identification. Conclusion: Storytelling can be used not only to communicate technical information about pandemics but also as a form of resistance to reveal, reject, and replace injustices that happen during a crisis.
- Publication
Technical Communication, 2021, Vol 68, Issue 4, p74
- ISSN
0049-3155
- Publication type
Article