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The epidemic has greatly affected people's use of social media. A friend in the fashion industry that I interviewed said that she would spend more time on social media during the epidemic than usual. Because she needs to pay attention to all kinds of information, such as the impact of the epidemic on her work. She also noticed that many fashion brands posted many posts about the epidemic on social media during the epidemic to show their sense of social responsibility.

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I noticed that Chinese people are very concerned about food and safety. When they meet, they often greet to each other by asking: "Did you have lunch/dinner?" When leaving, they often say to each other "Bye! Don’t forget to wear a mask!"

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During the epidemic, because everyone wears masks, does it make it difficult for people to hear the voices. Therefore, people are more inclined to articulate clearly and raise their voice.

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1. English:

In Zoom class, even in a group composed of all Chinese, we still speak English because it’s a class.

2. Mandarin:

When encountering strangers, such as salespersons, taxi drivers, I will use Mandarin because i don't know if he can understand my dialect.

3. Dialect:

I use dialect to communicate with my family and close local friends.

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In my virtual field report 1, I found some characteristics of the ways of using space in the lives of our team members during the pandemic.

1. In public, people prefer to use movable chairs.

2. There are often security guards and surveillance cameras in the neighborhoods where my group members live, acting as monitors. And because I am taking a driver’s license, I have been a voluntary traffic assistant for a period of time, which means that I am also a monitor in my  community.

3. all my group members mentioned that there are big supermarket or pharmacies near the communities where they live.

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I interviewed one of my friend Vera about her social media use during pandemic. I found her use of social media has increased due to the decrease of outdoor activities. She uses Bilibili to do a game live every night and became a game live blogger.
I stated to use video apps to watch videos during pandemic time, which I usually don't use before Covid-19 happened.

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My full name is Manqi Li, my friends usually call me Bella. My proper name usually called by my family.
During Covid-19, I chatted with people online, and my wechat name is Bella, so people always call me Bella. After self-quarantine, my friend still call me Bella or 贝拉 which is the direct translation from Bella.
After Covid-19, there is no much effect on my hometown. We remain off-line working, my colleagues call me Bella. So the name "Bella" used more than my proper name "Manqi Li"

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-Jaryn mentions that there is no wifi for people to use to stay for extended periods of time, which is an interesting policy to carry out to prevent people gathering in public space.

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Manqi indicates that COVID-19 does not bring much negative effect on communities, parks and malls in China, while Jaryn reports limitations in restaurants in the U.S..

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In zoom class, I noticed the greetings between students are more casual, "hi, hello". When we greet to professor, we would greet in a more formal way, "Good morning/afternoon professor."
In my report 2, I also recorded some of my observation in office, when we leave the office and finish one day of work, in stead of saying "goodbye", we say, "good job!" "excellent work today!"

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-Ways of using multiple languages/ repertoire:

Manqi&Hermione: informal language in breakout room

Manqi&Jaryn&Hermione: speak different dialect/language with families

-Ways of Sounding:

Jaryn&Hermione: difficulty in communication due to the failure of seeing others' expressions

Jaryn&Manqi: pitch change when talking to different subjects (i.e. pet, kids)

-Ways of doing routines:

Jaryn&Hermione: Waving hands to leave greetings

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Covid-19: 1. During self-quarantine, I could only connect people through online chatting apps, since there is no one talking to me face to face, my voices sounded more deeper than usual.
Office: When I talked to my students who are little kids, my voice tend to be slow and gentle.

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English: 1. Zoom class. In group breakup room discussion, we use informal language.
2. In working office: When I have class with the kids, my language tends to be childish, unlike the English we speak. When I communicate with my colleagues, we speak half English half Chinese.

Mandarin: 1. I usually speak Mandarin with my friends and daily conversations with other people.

Dialect: I speak dialect with my family, my father, mother, brother and sister. I also speak dialect with people who grows up with me in my hometown.

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In my field report 1, most of our group members locate in China currently, so we discussed a lot of details about surveillance and use of outdoor space in our community.
1. There are monitors, security guards and cameras on the streets and neighbors to surveillant residents.
2.  In China, community, park and malls usually gather with a lot of people. There is no much negative effect that Covid-19 brings.
3.  Two of our group member who located in US mention some places separated people due to Covid-19 such as school homecoming parade and some restaurants
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“I notice that greetings and leave-takings are quite different from what people usually do in real classroom.

-The professor would say hi to the class, but the students are usually muted at the beginning. However, in offline classes, students would greet the professor when they enter the classroom.

-Due to different time zones, people would greet each other with “Good morning”, “Good afternoon” as well as “Good evening”. Also, in breakout rooms which work as group discussions, students would say hi to each other and ask what time it is in each one’s location. When the countdown of the closure starts, people would wrap up the discussion and say “see you in the main room”, which is distinguishable from usual classroom.

-Students would unmute themselves and say thank you and goodbye while waving hands, but in actual classroom, most students would just leave without saying any leave-takings.”

—Virtual Field Report 2

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Covid has had a large effect on the usage of social media and based off of my interviews here are some of my findings:
-Megan (best friend) is embarrassed and disgusted when others post about going to parties or meeting large groups of people compared to before
-Megan rarely posts on social media because whats the point if we cant go anywhere or look cute

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Covid has not had much effect on my "ways of naming"
-My proper name is Jaryn
-nickname is Gracie or Grace for my middle name or 'Jare' from my high school nickname
-Kinship terms are used mostly with my partners family since they are extremely important when addressing others. Ex. Cô Hoa (aunt Hoa) where as when I talk to my aunts in America I just use there first name to address them ex. "Alisha"

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Key ways of doing routines I noticed during Covid:
-Consistently washing my hands, when I come back home or after being out I immediately wash my  hands
-Daily walks for fresh air became nervous situations if others did not wear a mask or keep a distance from one another
-Zoom: awkwardness online when people do not respond to questions or actively participate "Zoom silence"
-No more hugging or shaking hands others instead switching to waving  for the routine greeting with one another

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A few key ways of sounding i have noticed and documented during Covid:
-Work (Rice Blvd. restaurant) I often have to shout at customers because of masks it is hard to hear, often because we can’t see each other mouths we try to talk at the same time, I have to ask questions multiple times
-Talking to my pet (dog Jameson) I often use a high pitched voice and use babylike talk to him “Do you like your blankey”
-In person schools: hard for students to pay attention and understand fully without being able to see teacher expressions

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A few key ways of using language I have documented is:
-Zoom: “Breakout Room” the room we go to when we have small discussions, “who will be the reporter for our group?”
-Home: usually I speak in English but since my partner is Vietnamese I will use some simple Vietnamese words such as “Trời ơi” (similar to oh my god!) or “đi đâu đấy (where are you going?)
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A few key ways of using space i have noticed and documented in the Covid world is:
- Local coffee shop (Grounds for thought) is only having outdoor seating areas, not allowed to bring reusable cups, no wifi for people to use to stay for extended periods of time
- Local festivals have been canceled (Black Swamp Arts Festival)
- Restaurants (such as the one I work at Rice Blvd.) enforce a mask mandate, 6ft apart while dining in and waiting in line, limited seating to allow only a small amount of people inside at a time

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- I think the pandemic actually transforms Zoom into one of the social media. Before, it may only focus on video conference due to long distance. However, there are increasingly more socializing happening on Zoom. In this case, we can see that the specific issue and time can change the purpose and use of an app.

--Lots of people cannot see their friends and families in person, so they have to use social media to make video calls

-More people have devoted their time into social media when the outdoor actives are restrained

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-During the pandemic, I stay inside more, and I take online classes in China. So I’m less called by my English name.

-I give myself the English name “Hermione”, because I love Harry Potter.

-My first name is Xinhang. “Xin昕” means “dawn” and “hang航” means to sail.

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Problems of Wearing Masks

Wearing masks makes me harder to hear others.

-I have to say “Sorry, could you please repeat that?” more often

-Fail to judge others’ reactions of what I just said since their faces are half-covered

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English: Zoom

-Formal terminology in class

-Informal language during group discussion

Mandarin+Korean: home

I speak Mandarin with my parents, but I try to speak Korean to my little brother to let him learn a foreign language at a young age.

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-In my Virtual Field Report 1, I discovered that almost everyone in my group includes their parents as their regular off-line participants. As for all the internationals students from China, including myself, “if [we] live in Pennsylvania this fall semester, [our] parents should mostly likely to be online participants as well. Under the [pandemic], [my group] members have to share space with families”.

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During the epidemic, I mainly stay at home. My proper name is Yuang Wang. In fact, this is how almost everyone calls me, whether at home or with friends.

I noticed that Chinese people prefer to use profession to refer to someone instead of Mr/Mrs. For example, if I greet my elementary school teacher, I will call her Teacher Chen instead of Mrs Chen.