TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the promise and limitations of autonomous online timelines to understand experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic
AU - Garcia Iglesias, Jaime
AU - Lloyd, Nigel
AU - Freethy, Imogen
AU - Smeeton, Nigel
AU - Wellings, Amander
AU - Jones, Julia
AU - Wills, Wendy
AU - Brown, Katherine
N1 - © The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
PY - 2022/5/16
Y1 - 2022/5/16
N2 - This article discusses the use of autonomous, asynchronous, timelines to analyse personal and organizational experiences of COVID-19 using an online platform, LucidSpark. We evaluate the benefits and limitations of this approach and highlight findings in three areas: aesthetics, the balance of personal and organizational information, and the identification of key events. We argue that timelines generate fascinating data about participants’ personal and professional experiences of COVID-19. Then, we discuss the limitations of the data, and suggest how the method may be refined and used in combination with other approaches. By themselves, timelines provide limited data about how events relate to each other. Instead, timelines serve as useful pre-interview activities that should be combined with additional methods.
AB - This article discusses the use of autonomous, asynchronous, timelines to analyse personal and organizational experiences of COVID-19 using an online platform, LucidSpark. We evaluate the benefits and limitations of this approach and highlight findings in three areas: aesthetics, the balance of personal and organizational information, and the identification of key events. We argue that timelines generate fascinating data about participants’ personal and professional experiences of COVID-19. Then, we discuss the limitations of the data, and suggest how the method may be refined and used in combination with other approaches. By themselves, timelines provide limited data about how events relate to each other. Instead, timelines serve as useful pre-interview activities that should be combined with additional methods.
KW - health service evaluation
KW - online research
KW - qualitative research
KW - timelines
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130305738&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/13607804221084341
DO - 10.1177/13607804221084341
M3 - Article
SN - 1360-7804
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - Sociological Research Online
JF - Sociological Research Online
ER -