Logged in While Locked Down: Exploring the Influence of Digital Technologies in the Time of Corona. (September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Thorndahl, Kathrine Liedtke; Frandsen, Lasse Nørgaard
• Other Names: Harris Times Annette MarkhamDan guest-editor.; Luka Mary Elizabeth (M.E.) guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 27:Number 7(2021)
• Page Start: 870
• Page End: 877
• Publication Date: 2021-09
• Subjects: corona -- autoethnography -- digital technologies -- collage; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800420960176
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

Based on a collaborative endeavor, we present an autoethnographic textual collage of three fictionalized narrative accounts produced as a result of an amalgam of personal experiences encountered during the corona pandemic. The narrative accounts serve as illustrating examples of and critical reflections on how the pandemic and the increased use of digital technologies during the pandemic have affected the experience of reality and (trans)formed thinking and social relations alike. The crisis invites us to reflect on how the current confinement saturated with the ubiquitous presence and influence of digital technologies can be used as an occasion for large-scale reflections.