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Let me take this opportunity to share innovative methods that social researchers can adopt during this uncertain time brought about my the COVID-19 pandemic.
A thread: https://twitter.com/janakrai2011/status/1303543807120531456
Let me take this opportunity to share innovative methods that social researchers can adopt during this uncertain time brought about my the COVID-19 pandemic.
A thread: https://twitter.com/janakrai2011/status/1303543807120531456
Our lives have been interrupted because of the pandemic, and so are our research projects. I had taken the course named "Research, Interrupted" offered by @ethosITU that helped me get a number of diverse ideas to be creative with my methodology. https://ethos.itu.dk/research-interrupted/
Alondra Nelson here talks about the relationships between COVID-19 and Social Sciences. https://items.ssrc.org/covid-19-and-the-social-sciences/society-after-pandemic/
Patchwork ethnography is "designed around short-term field visits, using fragmentary yet rigorous data, and other innovations that resist the fixity, holism, and certainty demanded in the publication process."
Gökçe Günel, Saiba Varma, and Chika Watanabe https://culanth.org/fieldsights/a-manifesto-for-patchwork-ethnography
Gökçe Günel, Saiba Varma, and Chika Watanabe https://culanth.org/fieldsights/a-manifesto-for-patchwork-ethnography
This blog and vlog by Baird Campbell, Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam, Caitlyn Dye, Kristina Jacobsen, Rebekah Ciribassi, Sonia Qadir could be one such resource to understand the perspectives from the field.
http://blog.castac.org/2020/05/roundtable-covid-19-views-from-the-field/
http://blog.castac.org/2020/05/roundtable-covid-19-views-from-the-field/
Law, Ruppert and Savage (2011) argue that "social research methods are not only a toolkit to know the world but they actually play a role in shaping and creating society."
http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/iccm/library/164.html
http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/iccm/library/164.html
Samuel Gerald Collins, Matthew Durington, and Harjant Gill talk about the importance of multimodality in doing social research.
https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aman.12826
Drop me a message if you do not cannot access this.
https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aman.12826
Drop me a message if you do not cannot access this.
This Stanford-page is especially dedicated to doing ethnography remotely. Here are a number of interviews where researchers share their idea of being "away from the field" but still doing ethnography; something I am practicing myself. https://iriss.stanford.edu/doing-ethnography-remotely
This keynote by Ethnographic Studio - featuring Andrea Ballestero, Yesmar S Oyarzun, Katie Ulrich and Mel Ford will help us ponder on the questions raised by COVID-19 on social research more.
This episode of "Conversations in Anthropology" with Jolynna Sinanan on crisis and digital research. (Sidenote for scholars on Nepal: Sinanan's research site is in Nepal and she talks about other forms of crises in Nepal as well) https://soundcloud.com/anthro-convo/ep-314-sinanan
Deborah Lupton shares her thoughts about doing qualitative research during COVID 19.
Daniel Miller guides us on how to conduct ethnography during social isolation.
In this open-access resource (chapter), Jordan Kraemer talks about how the traditional notion of "the field" has changed with the growing access to digital media. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Chapter-7.-Doing-Fieldwork%2C-BRB%3A-Locating-the-Field-Kraemer/965c11af3f3aa372b8e474874c6d4d21d255f5d1
Read this interesting piece on the "Three lies of digital ethnography" by Gabriele de Seta:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339357338_Three_lies_of_digital_ethnography
I also recommend this writing by Crystal Abidin based on Seta's write-up.
https://anthrodendum.org/2018/02/07/three-lies-of-digital-ethnography/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339357338_Three_lies_of_digital_ethnography
I also recommend this writing by Crystal Abidin based on Seta's write-up.
https://anthrodendum.org/2018/02/07/three-lies-of-digital-ethnography/
Alder Keleman Saxena and Jennifer Lee Johnson talk here about suggest us numerous methodological possibilities that we can try during the uncertain times. http://somatosphere.net/2020/ethnography-in-pandamning-times.html/
Most of these were shared during the workshop offered by the Ethos Lab @ethosITU. They could offer some help. There could be many such resources out there and what I have shared here is not an exclusive list.
Do share your thoughts and keep the conversation going.
Do share your thoughts and keep the conversation going.
