Author: Victoria Irisarri, postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales/CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas). Lecturer in Anthropology at University of Buenos Aires. […]
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Internet Use Amongst Japan’s Elderly in the Age of the Coronavirus
Author: Julia Nagai, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) alumna Fieldsite: Sakai, a small city located just south of Osaka, Japan. Sakai is located in […]
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Coronavirus in Japan: smartphones and keeping self-informed
“I am ashamed of our government” messaged Inoue san*, a 65 year old woman from Osaka. She is retired and has been staying at home […]
Continue readingUse of social media by vulnerable populations in the time of Covid-19
: : URLDavid Slater Professor of Cultural Anthropology Japan Here in Japan we are working on vulnerable populations under covid-19 and the restrictions that are […]
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Ethnography of a Pandemic: COVID-19, New Orleanians, and Transition
Author: Asad el-Malik is a PhD candidate at Columbia International University’s School of Intercultural Studies. You can contact him at asadelmalik@gmail.com. Field site: I am currently experiencing […]
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Lockdown on Water and ‘The Great Towpath Debate of 2020’
: : In the best of times living on a canal boat can be an isolating existence, with many continuous cruisers (those with no permanent […]
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How data and news content inform safety decisions – sometimes
: : Data tells us when to protect ourselves Below is an account of how COVID-19 escalated and how we moved into lockdown. I used […]
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Digital Primary Schooling
: : As primary schools close the teachers have had to rapidly move to provide online educational resources to support parents in teaching their children. […]
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Singing Together Remotely
: : My choir was the first casualty of Covid-19, as we made the decision to stop meeting at the very start of the outbreak […]
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