The collection of narratives on face mask wearing written by members of scholarly association Navigating Knowledge Landscapes Network in May 2020

The data collected in this dataset are narratives exploring public policies, attitudes, individual behaviors, and the collective experiences of the affected communities regarding face mask wearing at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The narratives were written by the members of the interdisciplinary research network Navigating Knowledge Landscapes (NKL; http://knowledge-landscapes.hiim.hr/). The members of the network are scholars belonging to different research disciplines and the aim of the network is to explore and discuss the individual aspects of citizens’ navigation of (new) knowledge in the digital society. An invitation to participate in this study was sent to 97 members of the network on May 11, 2020, the written responses in the form of narratives were collected until May 26, 2020. In total, 29 scholars from 22 countries responded by providing their narratives, all of them collected in this dataset. The authors belong to 9 different academic disciplines with majority of them having background in Life Sciences, Sociology, Philosophy and Medicine.
The authors described in their narratives the use of face masks in their countries according to their subjective point of view, and/or how people from their social environment perceive it. The participants were asked to answer the following questions in their narratives:
• Part 1: What are the rules adopted in your country about face mask wearing? What would be the overall approach for use of the face masks in your community (government instructions, availability, the citizen compliance)?
• Part 2: What is your individual/personal attitude and practice in relation to face masks? If applicable, start with good practice and end with what you consider to be mistakes.
• Part 3: How do you judge the behavior of people you encounter? Face masks (or no face masks) and interpersonal interactions. Again, start with positive and end with negative.
• Part 4 (optional): free to say whatever you think is important to the practices of your community in relation to face masks.
Although standard questions were asked, we let scholars to answer them in open-ended text. No corrections or modifications were applied to the narratives, including no proofreading or grammatical checks. The authors agreed that their narratives can be published under their full name and affiliation, and the resulting collection used for research purposes. Ethical approval for this study was obtained from The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK and the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Croatian Studies, Croatia.

本数据集所收录之数据，系对COVID-19疫情初期公众政策、社会态度、个体行为及受影响社区在佩戴口罩方面的集体经历进行探索的叙事性文本。这些叙事文本由跨学科研究网络“知识景观导航”（Navigating Knowledge Landscapes，简称NKL；http://knowledge-landscapes.hiim.hr/）的成员撰写。该网络汇聚了来自不同研究领域的学者，旨在探讨和讨论公民在数字社会中探索（新）知识的个体层面。2020年5月11日，研究网络向97名成员发出参与研究的邀请，收集以叙事形式呈现的书面回应直至5月26日。总计有来自22个国家的29位学者响应并提供了他们的叙事文本，所有这些文本均被收录在本数据集中。作者来自9个不同的学术领域，其中大多数人的背景为生命科学、社会学、哲学和医学。在他们的叙事文本中，作者根据主观视角描述了其国家在佩戴口罩方面的规定，以及或其社会环境中的人们如何看待这一问题。参与者被要求在其叙事文本中回答以下问题：

• 第一部分：贵国关于佩戴口罩的规定有哪些？贵社区在口罩使用方面将采取何种总体策略（政府指导、可获得性、公民的遵从性）？

• 第二部分：您在佩戴口罩方面持有何种个人/主观态度和做法？如适用，请从良好实践开始，以您认为的错误做法结束。

• 第三部分：您如何评价您遇到的人的行为？佩戴口罩（或不佩戴口罩）与人际互动。同样，请从积极方面开始，以消极方面结束。

• 第四部分（可选）：自由表达您认为对其社区在佩戴口罩方面的实践至关重要的任何观点。

尽管提出了标准问题，但我们允许学者们以开放式文本的形式回答。对叙事文本未进行任何修正或修改，包括未经校对或语法检查。作者同意以全名及其所属机构发表其叙事文本，并允许将成果用于研究目的。本研究已获得英国爱丁堡大学和克罗地亚萨格勒布大学克罗地亚语学院伦理审查批准。