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Applied Scholarship in Extreme Contexts: Emotion, Meaning, and Risk in Pandemic Response

In: Organizational Communication and Technology in the Time of Coronavirus

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  • Rebecca M. Rice

    (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted my identity as an early career scholar and created a bifurcation between my professor life and my researcher life. I embarked on an ethnographic project related to COVID community response teams and took on the role of a volunteer who participated virtually in daily meetings about the pandemic. The organization I observed, Community Emergency Team (CET), was made up of various city and county organizations that worked together to create crisis communication messages and determine county policy about social distancing, testing, and vaccine distribution. After offering to join as a researcher, I took on a role in the “situational awareness” unit of the organization, where I created and shared daily meeting notes, helped facilitate daily Zoom meetings, and kept updated numbers of COVID cases for the county. This role as a volunteer-ethnographer meant that I was now a researcher and participant, as such, I felt a changing relationship with research methods, technology, and a new understanding of my research area of emergency and crisis organizations. I embraced autoethnography and used technology to facilitate reflections on my experiences.

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  • Rebecca M. Rice, 2022. "Applied Scholarship in Extreme Contexts: Emotion, Meaning, and Risk in Pandemic Response," Springer Books, in: Larry D. Browning & Jan-Oddvar Sørnes & Peer Jacob Svenkerud (ed.), Organizational Communication and Technology in the Time of Coronavirus, chapter 0, pages 349-362, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-94814-6_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94814-6_18
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