Kligler-Vilenchik Neta, Stoltenberg Daniela, de Vries Kedem Maya, Gur-Ze'ev Hadas, Waldherr Annie, Pfetsch Barbara
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
WWU Munster, Germany.
Soc Media Soc. 2020 Aug 11;6(3):2056305120948258. doi: 10.1177/2056305120948258. eCollection 2020 Jul.
Our international research team was in the midst of a comparative study about the day-to-day experience of Twitter users in Berlin and Jerusalem through a series of daily short surveys, when our Jerusalem data were becoming increasingly "compromised" by the growing public concern, and tightening government measures, around the spread of the Coronavirus in Israel. During the two waves of our 10-day survey of salient Twitter users in Jerusalem (March 9-March 19, = 34; March 23-April 2, = 25), Israel shifted from 50 confirmed Coronavirus cases to over 6,800 and from relative routine to almost full stay-at-home orders. This essay presents two intersecting narratives. First, we consider the methodological challenges of adapting ongoing academic survey studies to changing conditions. We then offer a mixed-methods analysis of the experiences of our Twitter users and how they saw the Coronavirus crisis shaping their use of Twitter. The essay thus offers a unique methodological and empirical vantage point on how social media use-and academic research-evolve during times of global uncertainty.
我们的国际研究团队正在通过一系列每日简短调查，对柏林和耶路撒冷推特用户的日常体验进行比较研究。这时，由于以色列公众对新冠病毒传播的担忧日益加剧，政府措施不断收紧，我们在耶路撒冷的数据越来越多地受到“影响”。在对耶路撒冷重要推特用户进行的为期10天的两轮调查中（3月9日至3月19日，n = 34；3月23日至4月2日，n = 25），以色列的新冠确诊病例从50例增至6800多例，国家也从相对正常的状态转为几乎全面的居家令。本文呈现了两个相互交织的叙述。首先，我们思考了在不断变化的形势下，调整正在进行的学术调查研究面临的方法挑战。然后，我们对推特用户的经历以及他们如何看待新冠危机对其推特使用的影响进行了混合方法分析。因此，本文提供了一个独特的方法论和实证视角，来探讨在全球不确定性时期社交媒体使用以及学术研究是如何演变的。
