New Resource: "Doing Fieldwork In A Pandemic"

Initiated by Deborah Lupton, this crowdsourced document provides necessary information and key resources for researchers struggling to conduct traditional face-to-face research under new circumstances. Check out: "Doing Fieldwork In A Pandemic."

The crowdsourced document provides a space for people to share their methods for doing fieldwork in a pandemic - specifically, ideas for avoiding in-person interactions by using mediated forms that will achieve similar ends.

Social research has been conducted online for many years, of course. There are many examples of using online survey tools or doing content analyses or ethnographies using existing online interactions as research materials. Interviews have been conducted by phone or Skype for a long time. Lupton's document is directed more at how to turn fieldwork that was initially planned as using face-to-face methods into a more ‘hands-off’ mode. People have added material about ‘born digital’ research (content already generated on the internet by online interactions), however, which provides an alternative source of social research materials.

Please add your ideas to the document - and do share useful references if available!