This article brings together digital anthropology and social work scholarship to create an applied anthropology of everyday digital intimacy. Child protection social work involves home visits in the intimate spaces of others, where modes of sensorial and affective engagement combine with professional awareness and standards to constitute sensitive understandings of children’s well-being and family relationships. In the COVID-19 pandemic, social work practice has shifted, partly, to distance work where social workers engage digitally with service users in their homes while seeking to constitute similarly effective modes of intimacy and understanding. We bring practice examples from our study of social work and child protection during COVID-19 together with anthropologies of digital intimacy to examine implications for new modes of digital social work practice.

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COVID-19 中的儿童保护社会工作

本文汇集了数字人类学和社会工作奖学金，以创建日常数字亲密关系的应用人类学。儿童保护社会工作涉及到他人私密空间的家访，其中感官和情感参与模式与专业意识和标准相结合，构成对儿童福祉和家庭关系的敏感理解。在 COVID-19 大流行中，社会工作实践已部分转变为远程工作，社会工作者在家中与服务用户进行数字化互动，同时寻求建立类似有效的亲密和理解模式。