Time, openness, and the pursuit of visibility: reflections on qualitative research during the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed new challenges to qualitative research, particularly to ethnographic or semi-ethnographic studies that would normally require a degree of in-person interaction with respondents. In this blog post, I reflect on navigating the processes behind conducting online, semi-structured, in-depth interviews with the respondents for my dissertation entitled, “Feminist Media Activism in the Philippines: Communication, Community, and Collective Action during COVID-19″, writes Luisa Pineda