Digital Tools for Qualitative Analysis

Digital Tools for Qualitative Analysis

Digital Fellow, Patrick Sweeney’s article was featured in the SQIP Member News Letter! See below to read the article:

Digital Tools for Qualitative Data Analysis
By Patrick Sweeney

Interest in using digital tools in qualitative social science research is not necessarily new, but appears to be steadily increasing. For example, this year’s International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry has a Digital Tools Special Interest Group[qualpsy.us5.list-manage.com], and the journal Qualitative Research has an upcoming Call for Papers for a special issue on the topic of Qualitative Methods and Data in Digital Societies[qualpsy.us5.list-manage.com]. One might say that the term “digital tool” in relation to qualitative research is unnecessarily broad – certainly, conducting an interview over Skype is using a digital tool, and so is recording an interview in person with your phone’s audio recording tool, or even writing up your results in a word processor! For the purpose of this post…[continue reading[qualpsy.us5.list-manage.com]]