Rogers, D., Herbert, M., Whitzman, C. et al. (20 more authors) (2020) The city under COVID‐19: Podcasting as digital methodology. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 111 (3). pp. 434-450. ISSN 0040-747X
Abstract
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Royal Dutch Geographical Society / Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | podcast; methodology; urban; cities; sonic geographies; digital methodology; COVID‐19 |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2020 13:23 |
Last Modified: | 04 Nov 2021 11:46 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/tesg.12426 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:162168 |