Introduction / Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech and Bartlomiej Lódzki -- Dilemmas and uncertainty : seven research challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic / Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech -- The Uberisation of higher education : datafied dynamics in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic / Göran Bolin -- An ecological approach : the infodemic, pandemic, and COVID-19 / Fausto Colombo -- Research project reformulation : a narrative on the design and methodological changes implemented during the emergency / Leopoldina Fortunati -- Broadcasters' strategy case studies : modification of product offers as a challenge in times of plague and survival / Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska -- Natural language processing and statistic : the first six months of the COVID-19 infodemic in Croatia / Slobodan Beliga, Sanda Martincic-Ip?ic, Mihaela Mate?ic and Ana Me?trovic -- News shareability analysis : global television channels as sources of information during the pandemic / Bartlomiej Lódzki -- Narrative mode of analysis : from media texts to pandemic memoryscape / Nevena Dakovic -- Diaries : the lockdown narratives of individuals / Valentina Marinescu, Bianca Fox, Ramona Marinache, Daniela Roventa Frumusani and Silvia Branea -- Media-aesthetic approach : a global visualization of the pandemic / Marina Zagidullina -- Qualitative and quantitative social media content analysis : TikTok usage by the World Health Organisation during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic / Roksana M. Zdunek -- Mixed analysis of user activity, content, and networks : Twitter's information cascades on conspiratorial pandemics / Sara Monaci and Simone Persico -- Participative research : the case of media usage by children due to the COVID-19 pandemic / Anda Rodideal -- Diaries : researching lockdown social distancing in the digital age / Manuela Farinosi and Chiara Piccolo -- Search trends analysis : how the COVID-19 pandemic affected other health campaigns / Ricardo Matos de Araújo Rios and Edson Carlo Brandão Silva -- Sentiment analysis, topic modelling and social network analysis : COVID-19, protest movements, and the Polish tweetosphere / Andrzej Jarynowski and Daniel Platek -- Various dynamics of the COVID-19 world of media and communication research / Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech.