Crafting Ethnographic Relationships During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany Using Voice-Based Technologies
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Drawing on a two-year ethnography of care practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, we discuss the affordances of voice-based technologies (smartphones, basic mobile phones, and landline telephones) in collecting ethnographic data and crafting relationships with participants. We illustrate how such technologies allowed us to move with participants, eased data collection through the social expectations around their use, and reoriented our attention to the multiple qualities of sound. Adapting research on the performativity of technology, we argue that voice-based technologies integrated us into participants' everyday lives while also maintaining physical distance in times of infectious sociality
Aesthetics · Affordance · Art · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Data collection · Ethnography · Landline · Linguistics · Materiality (auditing · Media studies · Pandemic · Performativity · Phone · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociality · Sociology · Anthropology · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Gender Studies · Medicine · Psychology
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