Crafting Ethnographic Relationships During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany Using Voice-Based Technologies

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ID4564483
AutoresSibille Merz (0000-0001-9967-6462, Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin, Germany, autor de correspondencia), Franziska König (0000-0003-1148-0268, Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin, Germany), J Paul (0000-0003-3732-6357, Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin, Germany), Andreas Bergholz (0000-0002-0953-1954, Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin, Germany), Christine Holmberg (0000-0002-8852-4620, Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin, Germany)
Año2024
Volumen43
Número3
Páginas219-232
Fecha de publicación2024-04-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2024.2324891
PMID38451490
OpenAlexW4392562775
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas37

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