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 languageEnglish
JournalFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Volume5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Dec 2022

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • COVID-19
  • pandemic
  • lockdown
  • narrative
  • chronotope
  • diary
  • time
  • place

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