Dear @Bula Wayessa, I think there is a typing error... firework?

Or I have misunderstood?

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Dear @Bula Wayessa, I think there is a typing error... firework?

Or I have misunderstood?

I guess it depends on your question and your field. I am just starting up a study at elderly home care units to see how they have handled the situation during covid-19. One challenge I meet is that the elderly care have been discussed and criticized a lot in media, and therefore can be unwilling to participate in this kind of study. Another practical challenge is that I have to adopt my methods to the current situation, were I cannot e.g. do interviews and observations IRL.

...the distance from informers. And the sheer impossibility to get any information from the thousands who lost their lives. They are way too many.

In many areas we'll have to start all over, as the clinical models of assistance will change forever

Thank you all!

what a coincidence. i just started a discussion a few minutes ago on a similar topic here on researchgate. i would be quite interested in our academic peers thoughts on this matter too. i am facing challenges doing interviews over the face to face zoom/teams platform. i dont think i get the respondents feelings/ beliefs/ actions/ idiosyncrasies etc while interacting with them over an online platform, however fast/stable or user friendly the platform may be the face to face connect seems to be missing...

Hello!

To be honest i think that there is no easy answer. It depends not only on the type of research, but also in what you seek to accomplish and the actual place where the research is taking place. For example: Studing "something" (your social object) in the country side versus studing in the modern cities is like being "beamed up" by Montgomery Scott and arrive at a completely different place. In the city people are afraid, they wont let the "outsider" (aka. the researcher) capture the routine or even schedule an (possible) interview, but, as once one said, thats the new normal (which is very debatable too). We need to adapt our research to the different ways of expressions in order to understand societies (as Castells [1972] noticies "space is the expression of society").

As i said there is no easy answer and another example is what we know as social time. Not only the different places but the time it self. Now we live social time as a continuum (known as present-present-present) beucause our quoitidian markers were taken away from us. (For more research in this area see H. Rosa´s (2013) "acceleration" or Renato Miguel do Carmo´s "A miséria do tempo: Vidas suspensas pelo desemprego"). Subjects prefer to stay in their homes to stay safe (as we all do!) but, with that, there is no way to divide (e.g.) work from familly or work from leisure time. Without thouse markers a new problem appears on the horizon ... how to differentiate them? Thats another thing that we, as researchers, need to keep in mind too...

There are to many factors in such a little time.