The Pandemic Journaling Project: A new dataset of first-person accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The rapid global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic affected different regions, communities, and individuals in vastly different ways that interdisciplinary social scientists are well-positioned to document and investigate. This paper describes an innovative mixed-methods dataset generated by a research study that was designed to chronicle and preserve evidence of the pandemic's divergent effects: the Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP). The dataset was generated by leveraging digital technology to invite ordinary people around the world to document the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their everyday lives over a two-year period (May 2020-May 2022) using text, images, and audio.

Methods and findings

PJP's weekly, online, bilingual (English/Spanish) journaling platfor

SUBMITTER: Willen SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12422429 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature