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Qualitative researchers can now connect with participants online to collect deep, rich data and generate new understandings of contemporary research phenomena. Doing Qualitative Research Online gives students and researchers the practical and scholarly foundations needed to gain digital research literacies essential for designing and conducting studies based on qualitative data collected online. The book will take a broad view of methodologies, methods and ethics, covering: • Ethical issues in research design and ethical relationships with participants • Designing online qualitative studies • Collecting qualitative data online through interviews, observations, participatory and arts–based research and a wide range of posts and documents. • Analyzing data and reporting findings Written by a scholar–practitioner in e–learning and online academia with 15 years’ experience, this book will help all those new to online research by providing a range of examples and illustrations from published research. The text and accompanying materials will offer discussion and assignment ideas for ease of adoption.
Organizing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Data
Organizing, Analyzing, and Interpreting Data
Highlights
Once data has been collected online, it can be handled and analyzed much the same way as data collected through other methods. That said, there is no one-size-fits-all approach for qualitative data analysis that online researchers can apply. Additionally, having completed their data collection, online researchers find they have many types of materials to organize, analyze, and interpret.
With the advent of numerous software packages for qualitative analysis, researchers also must decide which steps of the process to do by hand and which to carry out with the help of technology. Since a comprehensive explanation of this important area of the research process is outside the scope of this chapter, here approaches are compared and essential steps and questions discussed. ...
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