The Recovery Project will build a community-engaged archive of pandemic testimonies and make an immediate contribution for our collective mental health and critical well-being. Using rhetorical, discourse and narrative analysis, this project will use a combination of targeted interactive surveying, crowdsourcing via social media and correspondence, and scholarly analysis so that the energy and knowledge of thousands of people can be gathered — but also easily sifted through and used. The project will thus create a focused, scalable archive where information can be parsed and mental-health support shared. In its digital space, this project will provide a template to immediately address the mental-health needs and wellness of frontline workers, and also present a flexible best-practices model, global in scope, for understanding the role of media and social testimonies amidst a pandemic.
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The Ohio State University Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme