COVID-19 and Social Science Research— Beyond Disruption and Digital Divide, a Digital Turn. (December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jamil, Ghazala
• Is Part Of: Social change. Volume 51:Number 4(2021)
• Page Start: 514
• Page End: 522
• Publication Date: 2021-12
• Subjects: Social change -- Periodicals; India -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; 303.405
• DOI: 10.1177/00490857211057869
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0049-0857

Abstract

This comment takes a bird's eye view of the problems and changes in social sciences caused, amplified or accelerated by the pandemic. It further problematises the formulation of the impact of COVID-19 beyond the disruption-and-digital-divide framing to argue that the nature of certain realities has been digitalising already for a considerable amount of time in more complicated and non-linear ways than the criticism of 'online education' has captured. The digital transformation of social realities calls for an acknowledgement of a comprehensive digital turn in social science research.