*CFP* "CONTAINING COVID-19, THE MOBILE WAY: A GLOBAL COMPARISON", BOOK CHAPTER

As a sister volume to Containing COVID-19, the Mobile Way: Experience and Expertise from China, this volume concentrates on comparative studies of the global efforts in leveraging mobile to battle the pandemic. As the battle still goes on, it is imperative to compare and learn from each other globally different experiences and expertise in containing the pandemic.

As the central theme of this volume is how mobile has been leveraged to battle the pandemic in different countries, we welcome chapter contributors from around the world to contribute a country-specific chapter to investigate and explore the unique experience and expertise from different countries.

The suggested topics include, not limited to, the following:

• How governments in different countries have leveraged mobile to fight the pandemic
• The public responses via mobile to the pandemic and its related issues
• Mobile learning and mobile teaching during the pandemic
• Mobile health communication during the pandemic
• Mobile healthcare during the pandemic
• How people manage to work remotely via mobile
• How people manage to work creatively via mobile
• The importance and issues related to mobile connectivity during the pandemic
• How mobile games and eSports fare during the pandemic
• Mobile economic performance during the pandemic
• The role and impact of mobile journalism in fighting the pandemic
• City storytelling during the pandemic
• How diaspora, migrants, or immigrants leveraged mobile to fight the pandemic
• Mobile privacy and security during the pandemic
• Mobile public space during pandemic
• Challenges and opportunities ahead for the mobile industry

This project is designed to satisfy the global needs to learn from each other to enhance the global efforts in fighting the pandemic or any other public health crises.

Each submission should be original and unpublished and strictly follow the APA style and be kept between 5000-8000 words (excluding references).

Please submit your chapter proposal to the co-editors by 1 September 2021:

Xiaoge Xu: xiaoge.xu@nottingham.edu.cn
Gloria Khamkar: gkhamkar@bournemouth.ac.uk 

Co-editors: Xiaoge Xu and Gloria Khamkar
To be published by Palgrave