Collecting Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques

Cambridge University Press, 10/19/2017
EAN 9781107054974, ISBN10: 1107054974

Hardcover, 354 pages, 23.5 x 15.7 x 2 cm
Language: English

Is there more to qualitative data collection than face-to-face interviews? Answering with a resounding 'yes', this book introduces the reader to a wide array of exciting and novel techniques for collecting qualitative data in the social and health sciences. Collecting Qualitative Data offers a practical and accessible guide to textual, media and virtual methods currently under-utilised within qualitative research. Contributors from a range of disciplines share their experiences of implementing a particular technique, provide step-by-step guidance to using that approach, and highlight both the potential and pitfalls. From gathering blog data to the story completion method to conducting focus groups online, the methods and data types featured in this book are ideally suited to student projects and other time- and resource-limited research. In presenting several innovative ways that data can be collected, new modes of scholarship and new research orientations are opened up to student researchers and established scholars alike.

1. Collecting textual, media and virtual data in qualitative research Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke and Debra Gray
Part I. Textual Data Collection
2. Short but often sweet
the surprising potential of qualitative survey methods Gareth Terry and Virginia Braun
3. Once upon a time…
story completion methods Victoria Clarke, Nikki Hayfield, Naomi Moller, Irmgard Tischner and the Story Completion Research Group
4. Hypothetically speaking
using vignettes as a stand-alone qualitative method Debra Gray, Bronwen Royall and Helen Malson
5. 'Coughing everything out'
the solicited diary method Paula Meth
Part II. Media Data Collection
6. Making media data
an introduction to qualitative media research Laura García-Favaro, Rosalind Gill and Laura Harvey
7. 'God's great leveller'
talkback radio as qualitative data Scott Hanson-Easey and Martha Augoustinos
8. Archives of everyday life
using blogs in research Nicholas Hookway
9. Online discussion forums
a rich and vibrant source of data David Giles
Part III. Virtual Data Collection
10. 'Type me your answer'
generating interview data via email Lucy Gibson
11. A productive chat
instant messaging interviewing Pamela J. Lannutti
12. I'm not with you, yet I am… virtual face-to-face interviews Paul Hanna and Shadreck Mwale
13. Meeting in virtual spaces
conducting online focus groups Fiona Fox.