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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.
List of contents
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.
Summary
Collecting Qualitative Data provides an accessible guide to moving beyond traditional face-to-face interviews. Focusing on a range of textual, media and virtual methods, and offering both interesting twists on established methods and new techniques for collecting data, the book is an exciting resource for new and experienced qualitative researchers alike.
Report
'Collecting Qualitative Data is an accessible, informative, and educational text that brings new life to qualitative methodologies. Edited by leading scholars in the field and including contributions on a diverse range of approaches to qualitative data collection, this book is a must have for anyone who utilises qualitative methods.' Damien W. Riggs, Flinders University of South Australia
