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The City Under COVID‐19: Podcasting As Digital Methodology
Author(s) -
Rogers Dallas,
Herbert Miles,
Whitzman Carolyn,
McCann Eugene,
Maginn Paul J.,
Watts Beth,
Alam Ashraful,
Pill Madeleine,
Keil Roger,
Dreher Tanja,
Novacevski Matt,
Byrne Jason,
Osborne Natalie,
Büdenbender Mirjam,
Alizadeh Tooran,
Murray Kate,
Dombroski Kelly,
Prasad Deepti,
Connolly Creighton,
Kass Amanda,
Dale Emma,
Murray Cameron,
Caldis Susan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/tesg.12426
Subject(s) - covid-19 , scholarship , social distance , distancing , field (mathematics) , process (computing) , sociology , digital scholarship , social media , computer science , media studies , multimedia , world wide web , political science , medicine , mathematics , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pure mathematics , law , operating system
This critical commentary reflects on a rapidly mobilised international podcast project, in which 25 urban scholars from around the world provided audio recordings about their cities during COVID‐19. New digital tools are increasing the speeds, formats and breadth of the research and communication mediums available to researchers. Voice recorders on mobile phones and digital audio editing on laptops allows researchers to collaborate in new ways, and this podcast project pushed at the boundaries of what a research method and community might be. Many of those who provided short audio 'reports from the field' recorded on their mobile phones were struggling to make sense of their experience in their city during COVID‐19. The substantive sections of this commentary discuss the digital methodology opportunities that podcasting affords geographical scholarship. In this case the methodology includes the curated production of the podcast and critical reflection on the podcast process through collaborative writing. Then putting this methodology into action some limited reflections on cities under COVID‐19 lockdown and social distancing initiatives around the world are provided to demonstrate the utility and limitations of this method.