AUTHOR=Cowie Claire , Hall-Lew Lauren , Elliott Zuzana , Klingler Anita , Markl Nina , McNulty Stephen Joseph 

TITLE=Imagining the city in lockdown: Place in the COVID-19 self-recordings of the Lothian Diary Project

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

VOLUME=5

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2022.945643

DOI=10.3389/frai.2022.945643

ISSN=2624-8212

ABSTRACT=<p>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.</p>