This comment takes a bird’s eye view of the problems and changes in social sciences caused, amplified or accelerated by the pandemic. It further problematises the formulation of the impact of COVID-19 beyond the disruption-and-digital-divide framing to argue that the nature of certain realities has been digitalising already for a considerable amount of time in more complicated and non-linear ways than the criticism of ‘online education’ has captured. The digital transformation of social realities calls for an acknowledgement of a comprehensive digital turn in social science research.
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