Social Quarantine

This week on Social Quarantine, Danielle forces her husband, Brian Stewart, to participate in the podcast. Brian is a nurse in the cardiovascular intensive care unit at a hospital in Buffalo, NY. Because he is treating Covid-19 patients regularly, he is the perfect person to talk to about the misinformation and conspiracy theories that are currently being spread online. During the conversation, Danielle and Brian discuss what nurses experience every day vs. popular conspiracy theories.

This episode mentions:

COVID-19 and the 5G Conspiracy Theory: Social Network Analysis of Twitter Data by Wasim Ahmed, BA, MSc, PhD; Josep Vidal-Alaball, MD, PhD; Joseph Downing, BSc, MSc, PhD; Francesc López Seguí, MSc

On this episode of Social Quarantine, Danielle phones Chris Seymour and Madeline Otero to talk about how their work networks and practices have changed as a result of the global pandemic. Chris is a commercial insurance account associate and Madeline is a 6th grade teacher. In addition to discussing their changing careers, we also chat about what it's like to work from home when you just moved into a small apartment with your significant other, cat, and dog.

Today's conversation is inspired by a book by Clay Spinuzzi called All Edge: Inside the New Workplace Networks. This book discusses the ways that workplaces have changed throughout the years, especially when it comes to how we communicate, collaborate and coordinate our work. While All Edge was published long before the Covid-19 crisis, so much of what Spinuzzi wrote is now more relevant than ever. We have all changed our lives with this pandemic. And for many of us, that includes how we interact with others and organize our work.

For the very first episode of Social Quarantine, Danielle phones friend, Katie Africano, to talk about the role of social media during the COVID-19 crisis. Katie is a co-owner and photographer at Moonshine Studio of Photography, a freelance graphic designer, the cofounder of Buffablog, and the former art director at Account One Advertising. Today's conversation was inspired by Liza Potts' book, Social Media in Disaster Response: How Experience Architects Can Build for Participation.