Social Media + Society (Aug 2020)

From Zero to a National Data Set in 2 Weeks: Reflections on a COVID-19 Collaborative Survey Project

  • Eszter Hargittai,
  • Minh Hao Nguyen,
  • Jaelle Fuchs,
  • Jonathan Gruber,
  • Will Marler,
  • Amanda Hunsaker,
  • Gökçe Karaoglu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120948196
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6

Abstract

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In March 2020, like much of the rest of the world, we went into lockdown. A week into our new reality, we decided to do a survey study about how people were experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic. In this piece, we describe what motivated us to do the study, how we went about it, and what others can learn from our experiences.