Paper short abstract:

The COVID-19 pandemic affected all fields of activity, regardless of their nature. Anthropological research was not exempt from the challenges of this global context. The paper tries to give some of the answers the author has found to these dilemmas, with a special focus on autoethnography.

Paper long abstract:

The methodological landscape of social research today is in a state of flux. It is designed to cope with new realities and processes taking place in society. Rapid transformations in society pose new challenges for researchers in identifying the appropriate tools and methods to study the new social realities. The challenges of the emergence and expansion of life online have reached new heights in the last decade, accentuated in the last two by the Covid-19 pandemic.

In 2015 the author of the study began work on a project that aimed to use a somewhat innovative methodology that would include couple interviews and online interviews among its tools. The experience during this research will become for the author the initiation into the field world of the virtual research.

At the end of 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, affecting all fields of activity, regardless of their nature. Anthropological research will also not be exempt from the challenges that such a global context produces.

This paper presents the main dilemmas the author has faced along the way with a focus on these almost two years of research conducted mainly online. At the same time, the paper tries to create some of the answers the researcher has found to these dilemmas, with a special focus on autoethnography.