Doing qualitative research in a digital world / Trena M. Paulus, Jessica N. Lester

By:

Paulus, Trena M [author.]

Contributor(s):

Lester, Jessica Nina [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781544321585
1544321589

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

300.72 PAU

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	300.72 PAU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100649129

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

While some qualitative methods texts touch upon online communities as a potential data source, show how to conduct interviews and focus groups online, or select recording devices and analysis software, no book to date has guided readers in the creation of a comprehensive digital workflow for their research. By working through each chapter in this book, readers will be able to generate a unique digital workflow for designing and implementing their research. The book provides a deep exploration of the relationship between theories of technology, substantive theories, and methodological theory, and shows how together these inform the development of a quality research design. The authors include vignettes--narratives written by qualitative researchers describing cutting-edge use of digital tools and spaces--and also give examples of published studies, which together provide practical illustration of the content. Woven throughout is explicit attention to ethical challenges that are likely to be faced by researchers when adopting digital tools. The book invites readers to engage in a critical appraisal of the role of technology in qualitative research through reflection, conversation, and engagement with the larger community of researchers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Acknowledgments (p. xvii)
Preface (p. xix)
About the Authors (p. xxiii)
1 Introduction to Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World (p. 1)
Introduction (p. 1)
Defining and Theorizing Technology (p. 3)
Technological Determinism (p. 6)
Social Shaping of Technology (p. 6)
Social Construction of Technology (p. 7)
Actor-Network Theory (p. 8)
Critical Theories of Technology (p. 8)
Affordances Theory and Sociomateriality Theory (p. 9)
Creating Reflexive Digital Workflows for Effective Teamwork and Project Management (p. 11)
Vignette 1.1 Enhancing Research Participation With MAXQDA (p. 13)
Collaborative Practices in the Digital Workflow (p. 15)
Vignette 1.2 Qualitative Researchers at Play: Digital Tool Kits for Teamwork (p. 16)
Vignette 1.3 Remote Project Management: How Collaborative Tools and Spaces Empower Researchers (p. 18)
Vignette 1.4 Collaboration Across the Pond: Engaging in Reflective Team Research- Using Zoom (p. 22)
Final Thoughts (p. 27)
Reflexivity Questions (p. 28)
Resources and Further Reading (p. 28)
2 Qualitative Research Design in a Digital World (p. 31)
Introduction (p. 31)
Meanings of Qualitative Research (p. 32)
Vignette 2.1 Transgender Access to Comprehensive Care Experiences in South Central Appalachia Study (TransACCESS): Mixed-Methods Timeline interviews With Trans Adults (p. 35)
Vignette 2.2 An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Lived Experience of Rural Gay/Bisexual Men Living With HIV (p. 38)
Research Paradigms (p. 40)
Designing a Qualitative Research Study (p. 41)
Considerations for Designing Qualitative Research Studies in the Digital World (p. 42)
Consideration 1 Engaging the Literature and Generating Meaningful Research Questions (p. 43)
Consideration 2 Selecting a Methodology (p. 44)
Consideration 3 Identifying Relevant Theories (p. 49)
Vignette 2.3 Thinking With and Across Theories and Methods: Exploring Play Through Videos (p. 51)
Consideration 4 Selecting Research Sites and Recruiting Participants (p. 53)
Vignette 2.4 Using Social Media as a Source of Data and Community Building (p. 54)
Consideration 5 Generating Qualitative Data (p. 61)
Vignette 2.5 Collecting Data From Instagram (p. 62)
Consideration 6 Analyzing Qualitative Data (p. 63)
Consideration 7 Representing and Disseminating Findings (p. 66)
Consideration 8 Establishing Quality (p. 67)
Consideration 9 Emphasizing Ethics (p. 68)
Final Thoughts (p. 71)
Reflexivity Questions (p. 72)
Resources and Further Reading (p. 72)
3 Integrating Qualitative Data Analysis Software Across the Research Process (p. 77)
Introduction (p. 77)
Brief History of QDAS (p. 78)
Overview of QDAS Packages (p. 80)
Five-Level QDA® (5LQDA) (p. 82)
Vignette 3.1 Qualitative Research Using R to Enact the Gioia Approach (p. 83)
Vignette 3.2 Ensuring Analytic Strategies Drive the Use of Chosen QDAS Program: The Five-Level QDA® Method (p. 89)
Creating a Digital Research Workflow: QDAS Across the Research Process (p. 91)
Organizing and Managing Project Files (p. 91)
Engaging in Teamwork (p. 92)
Vignette 3.3 QDA Software for Data Archiving and Sharing (p. 93)
Reviewing the Literature (p. 95)
Generating Data With Digital Tools and From Digital Spaces (p. 96)
Vignette 3.4 The Importance of the QDA-XML Exchange for Qualitative Researchers (p. 97)
Transcribing Audiovisual Data (p. 98)
Analyzing and Interpreting Sources of Data (p. 98)
Writing and Reporting Research Findings (p. 100)
Accounting for the Use of QDAS in the Research Report (p. 100)
Selecting a QDAS Package (p. 101)
Getting Started With QDAS (p. 103)
Final Thoughts (p. 103)
Reflexivity Questions (p. 105)
Resources and Further Reading (p. 105)
4 Creating a Paperless Literature Review Process (p. 109)
Introduction (p. 109)
Literature Review as Joining the Conversation (p. 110)
Creating a Paperless Literature Review Workflow (p. 112)
Locating and Evaluating Relevant Sources (p. 113)
Vignette 4.1 Taking intellectual Risks Citational Politics and Practice (p. 114)
Storing and Organizing Sources (p. 118)
Vignette 4.2 Conducting Paperless Literature Reviews Using Mendeley (p. 119)
Vignette 4.3 Integrating NVivo and End Note (p. 122)
Reading and Annotating Sources (p. 125)
Analyzing and Synthesizing Sources (p. 126)
Vignette 4.4 A Paperless Literature Review With ATLAS.ti 8 (Windows) (p. 130)
Final Thoughts (p. 135)
Reflexivity Questions (p. 136)
Resources and Further Reading (p. 136)
5 Generating Data From Preexisting (Digital) Spaces (p. 139)
Introduction (p. 139)
What Counts as Data? What Counts as Evidence? (p. 140)
Defining and Classifying Diverse Sources of Data (p. 141)
A Typology of Data Sources (p. 142)
Vignette 5.1 Exploring Data Practices Through Geo-Social Networking Applications (p. 144)
Websites, Archives, and Other Sources of Online Information (p. 146)
Vignette 5.2 Treating Goodreads Book Reviews as a Source of Qualitative Data (p. 148)
Virtual Observations (p. 152)
Social Media Conversations (p. 153)
Vignette 5.3 Using Reddit as a Research Site to Generate and Collect Data (p. 156)
Vignette 5.4 Studying Social Media Practices Using NVivo's NCapture Google Extension (p. 160)
Extracting Data From Preexisting Online Spaces (p. 162)
Final Thoughts (p. 164)
Reflexivity Questions (p. 165)
Resources and Further Reading (p. 165)
6 Generating Data With Researcher Use of (Digital) Tools (p. 171)
Introduction (p. 171)
Generating Data With Digital Tools (p. 171)
Open-Ended Survey Responses Vignette (p. 172)
Vignette 6.1 Using ATLAS.ti to Work With Open-Ended Survey Responses (p. 174)
Participant and Researcher Reflections (p. 177)
In-Person Observations (p. 178)
Vignette 6.2 Examining Autism and Mental Health Talk in Ward Rounds: A Critical Discursive Psychology Approach to Understanding How Care Happens in Staff and Patient Interaction Using Video Reflexive Ethnography (p. 179)
Vignette 6.3 Using ArcGIS Online for Qualitative Research (p. 184)
Interviews and Focus Groups (p. 190)
Online Text-Based Interviews (p. 192)
Asynchronous Online Focus Groups (p. 194)
Synchronous Online Interviews and Focus Groups (p. 194)
Participant- and/or Researcher-Generated Images and Video as Data (p. 196)
Vignette 6.4 Live Online Interviews: Real Visual Interactions for Rich Data Collection (p. 197)
Vignette 6.5 Visual Data for Qualitative Research (p. 199)
Final Thoughts (p. 202)
Reflexivity Questions (p. 203)
Resources and Further Reading (p. 203)
7 Transcribing Innovations (p. 207)
Introduction (p. 207)
The Development of Transcription in Qualitative Research (p. 208)
Conceptualizing Transcripts and the Transcription Process (p. 209)
Vignette 7.1 Deciding to Produce a Jefferson Transcript (p. 210)
Vignette 7.2 Using Screen-Capture Software to Transcribe Online Interactions (p. 214)
Types of Transcripts (p. 219)
Verbatim Transcript (p. 219)
Vignette 7.3 Using InqScribe to Build a Smoother Workflow for Creating a Verbatim Transcript (p. 220)
Embodied Transcript (p. 224)
Vignette 7.4 Side by Side: Exploring Embodied Transcription (p. 225)
Gisted Transcript (p. 229)
Visual Transcript (p. 230)
Poetic Transcript (p. 230)
Vignette 7.5 Producing a Visual Transcript When Conducting Photo-Elicitation Interviews (p. 231)
Digital Tools to Support the Transcription Process (p. 234)
Software to Support Manual Transcription (p. 235)
Software to Support Automated Transcription (p. 236)
Vignette 7.6 Using Trint to Create Transcripts (p. 238)
Qualitative Data Analysis Software and Transcription (p. 240)
Final Thoughts (p. 241)
Reflexivity Questions (p. 243)
Resources and Further Reading (p. 243)
8 Managing and Analyzing Data (p. 247)
Introduction (p. 247)
Preparing Data for Analysis (p. 248)
Digitizing and Formatting (p. 248)
Anonymizing and Preparing for Use in QDAS (p. 248)
Managing Video- and image-Based Data (p. 249)
Preparing for Data Reuse and Sharing (p. 250)
What is Data Analysis? (p. 251)
Vignette 8.1 Using NVivo and Dedoose in Social Commerce Research (p. 251)
Special Considerations in the Analysis of Digital Spaces (p. 258)
Analytic Strategies and Software Tactics (p. 260)
Vignette 8.2 Using NVivo 12 for Synoptic Unit Analysis (p. 262)
Digital Tools to Support Qualitative Data Analysis (p. 266)
Searching the Data (p. 267)
Annotating (p. 269)
Visualizing the Data (p. 272)
Vignette 8.3 Using MAXQDA MaxMaps in Data Analysis (p. 273)
Analyzing the Data (p. 278)
Interrogating the Dataset (p. 283)
Vignette 8.4 Layers of Analysis in Video Game Play Data in Transana (p. 284)
Reporting Tools (p. 287)
Final Thoughts (p. 287)
Reflexivity Questions (p. 288)
Resources and Further Reading (p. 289)
9 Writing and Representing Findings to Become Public Scholars (p. 293)
Introduction (p. 293)
Historical Perspectives on Representation (p. 294)
Writing as Representation: Digital Tools and Spaces to Support the Writing Process (p. 297)
Google Docs (p. 299)
Vignette 9.1 Using Google Docs to Write (p. 300)
Authorea (p. 303)
Scrivener (p. 304)
Vignette 9.2 Using Mendeley and Scrivener to Support Writing (p. 305)
Qualitative Data Analysis Software (p. 309)
Vignette 9.3 Using ATLAS.ti to Support Writing Qualitative Research (p. 310)
Popularizing Research: Digital Tools and Spaces to Represent Findings (p. 311)
Digitized Ethnographies (p. 313)
Digital Stories (p. 314)
Websites and Blogs (p. 315)
Films and Videos (p. 316)
Vignette 9.4 Filmmaking and Qualitative Research (p. 317)
Qualitative Data Analysis Software (p. 320)
Vignette 9.5 Combining Rigor and Creativity Through the Use of ATLAS.ti (p. 321)
Becoming a Networked and Public Scholar in the Digital World (p. 324)
Vignette 9.6 Planning for Twitter When Designing Qualitative Research Studies (p. 324)
Final Thoughts (p. 329)
Reflexivity Questions (p. 331)
Resources and Further Reading (p. 331)
10 Concluding Thoughts on Doing Qualitative Research in a Chaotic World (p. 335)
Introduction (p. 335)
Looking Ahead (p. 336)
Pervasive Computing Environments (p. 337)
Qualitative Data Analysis Software (p. 337)
Big Data (p. 337)
New Methodologies and Analysis Methods (p. 338)
Citizen Science and Participatory Action Research Methods (p. 338)
Considerations Around Technology Adoption and Diffusion (p. 339)
Final Thoughts (p. 341)
Reflexivity Questions (p. 343)
Resources and Further Reading (p. 343)
Index (p. 345)