Opportunities From the Digital Revolution

Abstract

In the 1990s, the term "online" research emerged as a new and vibrant suite of methods, focused on exploitation of sources not collected by traditional social science methods. Today, at least one part of the research life cycle is likely to be carried out "online," from data collection through to publishing. In this article, we seek to understand emergent modes of doing and reporting qualitative research "online." With a greater freedom now to term oneself a "researcher," what opportunities and problems do working with online data sources bring? We explore implications of emerging requirements to submit supporting data for social science journal articles and question whether these demands might disrupt the very nature of and identity of qualitative research. Finally, we examine more recent forms of publishing and communicating research that support outputs where data play an integral role in elucidating context and enhancing the reading experience.

Visibilities and invisibilities in data reuse: video records of practice in education

“…Previous research has provided individual accounts of the challenges reusing qualitative data (Bishop and Kuula-Lummi, 2017;Broom, et al, 2009) or examined qualitative researchers from different disciplines reusing data more generally (Yoon, 2014b). Although there are studies of data reusers using qualitative data (Bishop, 2009;Corti and Fielding, 2016), few examine qualitative video data (Frank et al, 2018). Thus, this article is the first to present an in-depth look at multiple researchers in one discipline reusing a specific type of qualitative data.…”

Mobile Nomadic Digital Identity

“…The new "e-infrastructure" hypes the significance of the digital media and "re-shapes" not only the process of knowledge discovery, but also the re-discovery of unfathomed aspects of human personality (Nielsen, 2011, p. 26). Digital media engenders "rapid pace of developments around the exploitation of new forms of data" (Corti & Fielding, 2016). In corollary, the paradigms of understanding the essence of anyone"s identity are not mainly focused upon their reallife activities or their affiliation to some society or league but rather defined through the logging on/surfing specific websites; membership of certain social interaction platforms; the posts they share; the type of posts that win their likes and the content of their comments.…”

Speech, Voice, Text, and Meaning

“…As increasingly sophisticated new technologies for working with numbers, text, sound and images come on stream, there is one type of data that begs to be explored by the wide array of available digital humanities tools, and that is interview data [2,4] (Fig. 1).…”