transcription software
Freeware Express Scribe is downloadable and maybe helpful in the transcription of interviews task.
Archive for the ‘data analysis’
Special journal issue ~ Visual Methods
Here is a link to a special issue of Forum: Qualitative Social Research on visual methods. The issue includes examples and discussions of current issues related to the use of photography, video, photo-elicitation, and mapping.
technology and qualitative research
This special issue of Forum: Qualitative Social Research covers a range of topics in digitizing information for and in interpretive research.
CAQDA
This Coffey, Holbrook & Atkinson article, Qualitative Data Analysis: Technologies and Representations, touches on both the topic of computer assisted QDA and representations of knowledge.
Data Analysis Software
If you gave a 30 item survey to 1000 people would you analyze the results by hand or in your head? Probably not. The amount of data from an interpretive study will be just as voluminous and using computer assisted data analysis can make the analysis more systematic and frankly easier. There are a number of programs available, most are sold by Scolari and which one you use is at least partly a matter of personal choice.
In addition, the system you work on will matter. I am a Mac user and use HyperResearch. Other popular software packages, especially for those still stuck in the Windows world are atlas.ti and NVivo.
