Imagining the city in lockdown: Place in the COVID-19 self-recordings of the Lothian Diary Project

Claire Cowie; Lauren Hall-Lew; Zuzana Elliott; Anita Klingler; Nina Markl; Stephen Joseph McNulty

doi:10.3389/frai.2022.945643

Imagining the city in lockdown: Place in the COVID-19 self-recordings of the Lothian Diary Project

Claire Cowie, Lauren Hall-Lew, Zuzana Elliott, Anita Klingler, Nina Markl, Stephen Joseph McNulty

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a profound change to the organization of space and time in our daily lives. In this paper we analyze the self-recorded audio/video diaries made by residents of Edinburgh and the Lothian counties during the first national lockdown. We identify three ways in which diarists describe a shift in place-time, or “chronotope”, in lockdown. We argue that the act of making a diary for an audience of the future prompts diarists to contrast different chronotopes, and each of these orientations illuminates the differential impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns across the community.

Original language	English
Journal	Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2022.945643
Publication status	Published - 5 Dec 2022

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COVID-19
pandemic
lockdown
narrative
chronotope
diary
time
place

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2 Finished

Recording Life during a Pandemic: The Lothian Video Diary Project
Cowie, C.
ESRC
1/11/20 → 30/11/20
Project: Research
Recording Life during a Pandemic: The Lothian Video Diary Project
Hall-Lew, L., Cowie, C., Alex, B., Lai, C., Kerr, N., Liu, S. & Llewellyn, C.
25/05/20 → 31/07/20
Project: University Awarded Project Funding

1 Conference contribution

Variation in the Scottish BIT vowel: Comparing two corpora
Hall-Lew, L., Elliott Slosarova, Z., Göbel, J., Cowie, C. & Markl, N., 10 Aug 2023, Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Skarnitzl, R. & Volín, J. (eds.). Prague: Guarant International, p. 3681-3685 740
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1 Invited talk

Our Stories, Ourselves: Narratives of Covid-19 from Edinburgh and the Lothians
Lauren Hall-Lew (Invited speaker)
7 Feb 2024
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk

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Imagining the city in lockdown: Place in the COVID-19 self-recordings of the Lothian Diary Project

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Recording Life during a Pandemic: The Lothian Video Diary Project

Recording Life during a Pandemic: The Lothian Video Diary Project

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Variation in the Scottish BIT vowel: Comparing two corpora

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Our Stories, Ourselves: Narratives of Covid-19 from Edinburgh and the Lothians

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