Interactional Anomie? Imaging Social Distance after COVID-19: A Goffmanian Perspective

Romania, Vincenzo

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/10836

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“…For instance, Scambler (2020, p. 140) describes the way that breaching experiments, like COVID19, constitute 'disruptions to social order' that 'provide rare insights into the day-to-day practices, or artful accomplishment, of ordered living'. Furthermore, Romania (2020) argues that by using the terms 'social' and 'physical' distancing as synonyms, governments equate 'sociality with risk and the semantic opposition between health and sociability' (p. 52).…”

Section: Norms In Ethnomethodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The interactional production and breach of new norms in the time of COVID‐19: Achieving physical distancing in public spaces

Drury

Stokoe

2021

British J Social Psychol

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Section: Norms In Ethnomethodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The interactional production and breach of new norms in the time of COVID‐19: Achieving physical distancing in public spaces

Drury

Stokoe

2021

British J Social Psychol

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“…The pandemic represents a state of social anomie, as its dynamic development led to restrictions and new regulations worldwide; these restrictions made many people fear the possibility of illness and death, economic crisis, and the uncertainty of the future [ 43 ], but they also adopted attitudes of rebellion or rejecting the possibility of danger [ 44 ]. Researchers also pointed to the possibility of interaction anomie arising from the limitations of interpersonal relationships while at the same time looking for ways not to be isolated after all [ 45 , 46 ]. Psychological stressors associated with the pandemic, influencing the confusion and focus on survival and avoidance of the disease, were primarily the strong impact of mass and social media reporting constantly on cases and deaths, new mutations of the virus, lack of vaccine (in the first year of the pandemic), the threat of economic recession, unemployment, and reduced quality of life.…”

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Spatiotemporal Mapping of Online Interest in Cannabis and Popular Psychedelics before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland

Al-Imam

Motyka

Witulska

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Background: Psychedelics represent a unique subset of psychoactive substances that can induce an aberrant state of consciousness principally via the neuronal 5-HT2A receptor. There is limited knowledge concerning the interest in these chemicals in Poland and how they changed during the pandemic. Nonetheless, these interests can be surveyed indirectly via the web. Objectives: We aim to conduct a spatial-temporal mapping of online information-seeking behavior concerning cannabis and the most popular psychedelics before and during the pandemic. Methods: We retrieved online information search data via Google Trends concerning twenty of the most popular psychedelics from 1 January 2017 to 1 January 2022 in Poland. We conducted Holt–Winters exponential smoothing for time series analysis to infer potential seasonality. We utilized hierarchical clustering analysis based on Ward’s method to find similarities of psychedelics’ interest within Poland’s voivodships before and during the pandemic. Results: Twelve (60%) psychedelics had significant seasonality; we proved that psilocybin and ayahuasca had annual seasonality (p-value = 0.0120 and p = 0.0003, respectively), and four substances—LSD, AL-LAD, DXM, and DOB—exhibited a half-yearly seasonality, while six psychedelics had a quarterly seasonal pattern, including cannabis, dronabinol, ergine, NBOMe, phencyclidine, and salvinorin A. Further, the pandemic influenced a significant positive change in the trends for three substances, including psilocybin, ergine, and DXM. Conclusions: Different seasonal patterns exist for psychedelics, and some might correlate with school breaks or holidays in Poland. The pandemic induced some changes in the temporal and spatial trends. The spatial-temporal trends could be valuable information to health authorities and policymakers responsible for monitoring and preventing addictions.

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“…As emergency COVID-19 measures were becoming standardised globally, epidemiologists from the WHO firmly recommended a linguistic shift from 'social' to 'physical' distancing on the basis that modern technology is capable of keeping us connected in spite of the new regulations [23]. Given that the anticipation of the first wave would in essence reject in-person contact in the way it was known; this narrative was therefore appointed to the normalisation of fully remote communication.…”

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Sound Feedback for Social Distance: The Case for Public Interventions during a Pandemic

2022

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Within the field of movement sensing and sound interaction research, multi-user systems have gradually gained interest as a means to facilitate an expressive non-verbal dialogue. When tied with studies grounded in psychology and choreographic theory, we consider the qualities of interaction that foster an elevated sense of social connectedness, non-contingent to occupying one’s personal space. Upon reflection of the newly adopted social distancing concept, we orchestrate a technological intervention, starting with interpersonal distance and sound at the core of interaction. Materialised as a set of sensory face-masks, a novel wearable system was developed and tested in the context of a live public performance from which we obtain the user’s individual perspectives and correlate this with patterns identified in the recorded data. We identify and discuss traits of the user’s behaviour that were accredited to the system’s influence and construct four fundamental design considerations for physically distanced sound interaction. The study concludes with essential technical reflections, accompanied by an adaptation for a pervasive sensory intervention that is finally deployed in an open public space.

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Interactional Anomie? Imaging Social Distance after COVID-19: A Goffmanian Perspective

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

The interactional production and breach of new norms in the time of COVID‐19: Achieving physical distancing in public spaces

The interactional production and breach of new norms in the time of COVID‐19: Achieving physical distancing in public spaces

Spatiotemporal Mapping of Online Interest in Cannabis and Popular Psychedelics before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland

Sound Feedback for Social Distance: The Case for Public Interventions during a Pandemic

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