Qualitative e-Social Science/Cyber-Research  

Oleh:

Fielding, Nigel G. ; Lee, Raymond M.

Jenis: Article from Books - Reference
Dalam koleksi: The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, page 491-506.
Topik: Applying e-Research Technologies to Archival Databases; Access Grid Applications; Mixed Method Applications; Remote Sensor Device Applications; Applications of Streaming Digital Video and Digital Imaging; XML and HTML Applications for Qualitative Data Analysis; Content Analysis and Socio-Linguistic Research Applications

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: 301.150.1 SAG 7 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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New computational technologies are finding increasing application in qualitative social research. Prominent amongst these are Grid and High Performance Computing technologies. This chapter considers the potential that such technologies have to benefit the scope, depth and rigour of qualitative research. We argue that it is more than simply a matter of new computational resources. Emergent technologies enable new modes of research, new approaches to analysis, and new relationships between social research and society. Moreover, the emergence of a pervasive computational environment offers a new subject for social science inquiry, raising issues relating to the social shaping of technologies and the role that technology has in shaping society and social relations. Innovative computational developments must not be regarded uncritically. The new digital technologies come with strings attached in the form of research policies, institutional expectations, and shifting boundaries around customary norms of what is and is not legitimate in qualitative research. As well as posing technical challenges for users and computational resource providers, the new technologies will increasingly test conventions realting to norms of privacy, modes of data collection, and accepted understandings of the rationale and purposes of qualitative research.

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