Data design:
The post-corona society

Geeske Boudestein // P2

The role of our socio-economic background on the way we experience COVID-19 and it's influence on the post-corona society

For this project I collected data from two groups with different socio-economic backgrounds and compared what topics the talked about, the tone and the sources, to sketch a more accurate image of how we perceive the coronacrisis and how this will form the post-corona society

Why?

I was born and still live in Spijkenisse, a small city/town near Rotterdam.
Spijkenisse is more working class environment, with overall lower education and income. I noticed that the data in the database was really different from the conversations, messages and data from my contacts in Spijkenisse. I also noted that a lot of the articles speculating about the post-corona society didn't always take into account the difference in socio-economic background. Which I think is important to do to create a realistic speculation of a post-corona society

How?

Apart from the database we had with the class, I also started collecting data from my conversations, messages, groupchat and social media timeline from my contacts in Spijkenise. I took in account the age and education of the persons, for a better comparison.

Findings

videos/podcast/tv

News articles found through social media

From newspaper/direct news webpage

WdKa Students

Contacts Spijkenisse

News sources and channels

Het Parool, NRC, Volkskrant

Local paper, Telegraaf, Het AD

Topics

WdKa Students

Contacts Spijkenisse

Longing

Mental health

Stress

School

News surrounding COVID-19

Longing

Stress

Financial

Politics

News surrounding social distancing