Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (Dec 2022)

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
https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2022.945643
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5

Abstract

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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.

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