Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the Covid-19 Crisis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781611864922)

Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Center on Digital Culture and Society and serves as deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. He is the author of The Wuhan Lockdown, The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China, and The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online. He is also the editor or co-editor of six books.

Elaine J. Yuan is an associate professor in the communication department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on how new forms of communication and technology mediate various social institutions and cultural practices. She has researched extensively on questions regarding network communication, social media, digital platforms, cultural production, and social change. Her book The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society (2021), which examines the role of the Internet as symbolic spaces for the changing cultural practices of privacy, nationalism, and the network market in China, won the 2022 Outstanding Book Award of the Asian/Pacific American Caucus of the National Communication Association.