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Untapped sources of contextualized knowledge: Exploring occupational disruption during COVID-19 as showcased through YouTube parodies

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Pages 417-429 | Received 21 Jan 2021, Accepted 15 Sep 2021, Published online: 26 Oct 2021
 

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic led to stay-at-home mandates and lockdowns around the globe. During this time of occupational disruption and social distancing measures, many engaged through online environments. Social media are ever-increasing hosts of occupation and participation, rich with research opportunities. In this study, we explored COVID-19 experiences by analyzing parody videos posted on YouTube by various content creators. We analyzed the lyrics of 27 viral videos (accrued 1 million or more views) by 20 content creators. Using a transactional framework, we identified five themes related to occupational disruption in the lyrics and explored the polarity of the concepts within each theme: old norms vs. new normal, time expanded vs. time condensed, control seeking vs. lack of control, social isolation vs. excess socialization, and cynicism vs. hope. Our findings demonstrated the complex transactions between previous habits and routines, changing spaces of occupation, and meaning of daily occupations within evolving social, economic, and physical contexts. While this study showcased YouTube videos as one untapped source of contextualized knowledge for occupational science, there is a need for further exploration of methodological and ethical challenges of studying digital content.

COVID-19 大流行导致了全球范围内的居家令和封锁。在这段生活活动中断和社会疏离措施的时期,许多人通过在线环境交流参与。社交媒体是生活活动和参与的越来越普遍的主体,提供着丰富的研究机会。在这项研究中,我们通过分析各种内容创作者在 YouTube 上发布的模仿视频来探索 COVID-19 经历。我们分析了 20 位内容创作者的 27 个火爆视频(累计观看次数超过 100 万)的歌词。使用互动框架,我们确定了歌词中与生活活动中断相关的五个主题,并探讨了每个主题中概念的极性:旧规范与新常态、时间扩展与时间压缩、寻求控制与缺乏控制、社交孤立与过度社交,愤世嫉俗与希望。我们的研究结果表明,在不断变化的社会、经济和物理环境中,以前的习惯和惯例、不断变化的生活活动空间以及日常活动的意义之间的复杂互动。虽然这项研究将 YouTube 视频展示为生活活动科学的情境化知识的一个尚未开发的来源,但仍需要进一步探索研究电子数据内容的方法的和伦理的挑战。

La pandemia de la Covid-19 dio lugar a mandatos de confinamiento y cierres patronales en todo el mundo. Durante esta época de interrupción laboral y medidas de distanciamiento social, muchas personas se involucraron a través de plataformas en línea. Cada vez más, los medios de comunicación social se han vuelto un lugar para ejercer la ocupación y la participación, y ofrecen muchas oportunidades orientadas a realizar investigaciones. En este estudio examinamos las experiencias vinculadas a la Covid-19, analizando videos de parodia publicados en YouTube por varios creadores de contenido. En este sentido, analizamos las letras de 27 videos virales (que han alcanzado un millón de visitas o más) de 20 creadores de contenido. Utilizando un marco transaccional, en las letras de las canciones identificamos cinco temas relacionados con la interrupción ocupacional y examinamos la polaridad de los conceptos dentro de cada tema: antiguas normas versus nueva normalidad, tiempo expandido versus tiempo condensado, búsqueda de control versus falta de control, aislamiento social versus exceso de socialización y cinismo versus esperanza. Nuestros resultados dan cuenta de las complejas transacciones entre los hábitos y las rutinas anteriores, los espacios de ocupación cambiantes y el significado de las ocupaciones diarias dentro de contextos sociales, económicos y físicos en evolución. Aunque este estudio mostró que los videos de YouTube son una fuente de conocimiento contextualizado sin explorar para la ciencia de la ocupación, es necesario seguir analizando los retos metodológicos y éticos que supone el estudio de los contenidos digitales.

Acknowledgements

The authors honour and thank the Tongva of the Yaangna village as the traditional inhabitants of the lands of the City of East Los Angeles in the State of California and surrounding areas, where this research was conducted.

We also thank the University of Southern California Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy for its support in the development of this paper, with special thanks to Dr. Shawn C. Roll, Dr. Mary Lawlor, and the current PhD cohort.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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