A Systematic Review of Academic Researches in the Field of Communication Sciences During the COVID-19 Pandemic Process

Abstract

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic period has affected all areas of life in different ways and shaped people's living conditions and habits. Thus, many social changes have been experienced throughout this process. For this reason, the problems and changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic period have been investigated in the light of different disciplines. The pandemic process has been a period in which communication has a great importance for brands, government institutions and individuals. On the other hand, the covid-19 period has been an important crisis period in terms of communication. Various communication problems have occurred in every part of the society and different activities have been carried out to ensure communication. It was seen as a necessity to investigate the events that took place in this period in the context of communication. As a result, studies investigating the COVID-19 period from different perspectives in the context of communication science have taken place in domestic and foreign literature. Thus, communication science has become an important field of study among the disciplines in which the problems and changes brought by the pandemic period are examined. This study aims to examine and compare the contents of Turkish and English articles published in the field of communication sciences during the COVID-19 pandemic process. The systematic research method was used in the research. Research findings revealed that Turkish and English articles in the field of communication sciences during the COVID-19 period generally have similarities in terms of their subject headings. However, the articles have differences in terms of the research method used. In addition, it was concluded that the articles examined in the study can be classified under the sub-titles of "crisis/risk communication", "infodemia", "social media", "journalism-news" and "public relations/advertisement".