Editing Tech, TEK and Tea (section)

=Piloting Remote Interview Technologies=

The interviews were conducted at a large dining table in Leonard Netser’s living room, which provided for the required distancing between “interviewer” and “interviewee”. 

A third, locally hired research assistant, was also present in the room to attend to several recording devices, streaming platforms, battery levels and communication channels. All three people present in the room were masked and physically distancing from each other. 

After a successful technical pilot, in which Leonard was interviewed remotely by multiple Bearwatch researcher on the basis of a collaboratively designed semi-structured interview guide, we proceeded with the first formal interview.

This interview, was to be conducted in Inuktitut by Leonard, with several moments of summary in English during the interview, and more elaborate translation of marked timestamps afterwards. This decision was made in response to the fact that the interviewee did not speak English.