Czym jest dobry pamiętnik, czyli wyzwania etyczne i metodologiczne w projekcie „Pamiętniki Pandemii”
What Makes a Good Diary, or Ethical and Methodological Questions in the ‘Pandemic Diaries’ Project

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the main challenges of an organisational, methodological and ethical nature in the ‘Pandemic Diaries’ project. Operating in a peculiar ‘research laboratory’ of the coronavirus pandemic, we faced a number of issues. First, we wondered how to set a competition apart from a research project. In the article, we present the distinguishing features of the diary competition, which make it different from the method of personal document study. We also discuss the process of selecting the best diaries and the evaluation criteria we adopted. Second, we look at the challenges of carrying out a diary competition during the ‘hard’ lockdown period as well as at the challenge of analysing the diaries that contain troubled personal accounts and describe individuals’ dramas. In the article, we propose several solutions that we tested when implementing the project, such as collegial support, special care for anonymisation, and securing the material from third party access.

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