Crafting Ethnographic Relationships During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany Using Voice-Based Technologies.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Epub Date: 2024-03-07 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2024.2324891

Sibille Merz, Franziska König, Joshua Paul, Andreas Bergholz, Christine Holmberg

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Abstract

Drawing on a two-year ethnography of care practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, we discuss the affordances of voice-based technologies (smartphones, basic mobile phones, and landline telephones) in collecting ethnographic data and crafting relationships with participants. We illustrate how such technologies allowed us to move with participants, eased data collection through the social expectations around their use, and reoriented our attention to the multiple qualities of sound. Adapting research on the performativity of technology, we argue that voice-based technologies integrated us into participants' everyday lives while also maintaining physical distance in times of infectious sociality.

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在德国 COVID-19 大流行期间利用语音技术构建人种学关系。

通过对德国 COVID-19 大流行期间的护理实践进行为期两年的人种学研究，我们讨论了基于语音的技术（智能手机、基本移动电话和固定电话）在收集人种学数据和建立与参与者的关系方面的优势。我们说明了这些技术如何让我们与参与者一起行动，如何通过对其使用的社会期望来缓解数据收集工作，以及如何将我们的注意力重新调整到声音的多重品质上。通过对技术表演性的研究，我们认为，语音技术将我们融入了参与者的日常生活，同时也在社会性极强的时候保持了物理距离。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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4.30%

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.