Eleven Days

Abstract

In this essay, I reflect on the process of waiting for the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. I draw on critical/poststructuralist theories of communication, especially the ideas of Jacques Derrida and Gaston Bachelard, in my reflection. I hope this essay encourages others to reflect on communication in everyday life.

Keywords:

• COVID-19
• poststructuralism
• Derrida

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Peter Joseph Gloviczki

Peter Joseph Gloviczki (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Mass Communication, 2012) examines representation in the digital age. He is particularly interested in the ways that memorialization and mediated narration either hold space for or obscure voices that are most often othered or excluded in mediated discourses. He works as an associate professor of communication at Coker University in Hartsville, South Carolina. He also serves as an assistant editor of the Journal of Loss and Trauma (Taylor & Francis). Gloviczki is active in both the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the Carolinas Communication Association (CCA). His first book is Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and his second book Mediated Narration in a Digital Age: Storying the Media World is forthcoming in the Frontiers of Narrative Series with University of Nebraska Press.