Open AccessFrom Zero to a National Data Set in 2 Weeks: Reflections on a COVID-19 Collaborative Survey Project
Author(s) -
Eszter Hargittai,
Minh Hao Nguyen,
Jaelle Fuchs,
Jonathan Gruber,
Will Marler,
Amanda Hunsaker,
Gökçe Karaoglu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
social media + society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 32
ISSN - 2056-3051
DOI - 10.1177/2056305120948196
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , rest (music) , zero (linguistics) , set (abstract data type) , survey data collection , survey research , psychology , computer science , medicine , applied psychology , virology , mathematics , statistics , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , cardiology , programming language
In March 2020, like much of the rest of the world, we went into lockdown. A week into our new reality, we decided to do a survey study about how people were experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic. In this piece, we describe what motivated us to do the study, how we went about it, and what others can learn from our experiences.