Conversational Analysis Tutorial
A good friend reminded me of a wonderful tutorial on conversation analysis found at: http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~ssca1/intro1.htm CA is now a settled discipline, developed since the pioneering work in the sixties by the sociologist Harvey Sacks. What it has accumulated as insights and findings can be brought to bear on any set of data where language is used [...]
IPhone App for Ethnographic Research
The December issue of the Weekly Qualitative Report included a link to a fascinating site containing information and a YouTube Video describing an I-Phone/Touch app for ethnographic work. I am posting prior to downloading of the app. My initial impression is that the developer has framed the application for “consumer” ethnographic work. The video presentation [...]
Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT)
I received the following notice today from the Qualitative Research for the Human Sciences Discussion List. I’m not familiar with this analysis tool and would appreciate receiving feedback from others. Their website requires registration but is free to users as a beta version: http://pcat.qdap.net/ The Public Comment Analysis Toolkit (PCAT) is Web-based, university-hosted software engineered [...]
Writing Fieldnotes
In chapter 4 of Emerson, Robert M., Fretz, Rachel I., & Shaw, Linda L. (1995). Writing ethnographic fieldnotes. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, entitled writing up fieldnotes II: creating scenes on a page, we are reminded: To view writing fieldnotes simply as a matter of putting on paper what a field researcher has heard and [...]
The lived experience of the ethnographer
Try writing an ethnography of something very close to you. A story from the beginning of your life that takes you to the present moment. A family, silence and secrets, a few spoken words, a death, memory and love. An intimate culture to be certain. This will take you beyond questions of participant-observation, unstructured data, [...]
Voice Recognition Software
Visitors to our Center for Qualitative Inquiry often ask about voice recognition software. We currently provide users with access to MacSpeech and Dragon Speaking Naturally software. Voice recognition software has improved dramatically over the past few years. While you still need to train the software to recognize your voice by reading passages, this now only [...]
QSR launches NVivo 8 video
QSR International has ramped up user support for NVivo version 8 by adding video clips in addition to the screen shot web based tutorials.
