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Research Activities in the Pandemic Era: Limitations and Potentials

The health crisis of 2020 suspended or at least partially altered most of the scientific and professional activities that were taking place at various cultural institutions around the world. Lectures, conferences, exhibition openings, book presentations and other similar events were mostly cancelled, postponed or held online. The number of direct social contacts has thus significantly been reduced, as opposed to the increasingly prevalent online interaction. Archival research has also been suspended or conducted using digitized and usually publicly available formats. The current coronavirus-induced pandemic has thus spurred the emergence, and in some places accelerated, the spread of more significant research networking. As part of the lecture, the limitations and possibilities of digital working methods are discussed. The advantages and disadvantages of web conferencing, live streaming, video calling, studying materials in digital form and working from home in general are questioned. Simultaneously, special emphasis is placed on the psychological and social challenges faced by contemporary researchers at various cultural institutions (from libraries and archives to galleries and museums). Finally, within the conclusion, the role of the contemporary researcher is evaluated in the light of future social relations and further popularization of new technologies.

COVID-19 pandemic ; contemporary research ; social relations ; new technologies

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