Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World: Interview with the Authors
As part of a MethodSpace focus on emerging and online research methods we explored new ideas about research and how we could keep conducting inquiries during the pandemic.
Remember chance meetings at face-to-face conferences?
A number of years ago I attended a conference hosted by The Qualitative Report. I was impressed by a couple of lively, interactive sessions run by students. I discovered that all of these students were studying with Dr. Trena Paulus. I was delighted to meet this super prof, and we've been in touch ever since. We're both passionate about qualitative research, and see our work as complementary.
Trena collaborates with the talented Jessica Lester. I was happy to see a new edition of the important book they co-authored, Digital Tools for Qualitative Research. This edition expands and updates the earlier work. To signal this move beyond digital tools to include research uses of online spaces and electronic resources, the new edition merited a new title: Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World.
To learn more about this book, I had a lively conversation with Trena and Jessica. Take a look!
Relevant MethodSpace Posts
Jessica Lester and Trena Paulus co-edited a December 2023 special issue for the Sage journal, Qualitative Inquiry, “Qualitative inquiry in the 20/20s: Exploring methodological consequences of digital research workflows.” Read the articles and watch a roundtable with contributors. This is the first of two discussions of the special issue.
While reflexivity is a concept quite familiar to qualitative researchers, the idea of ‘technological reflexivity’ may be less so. Find information about October 2023 events and articles.
This interview was a show-and-tell about analyzing online talk.
Dr. Trena Paulus and Professor Joanna Pawelczyk discuss their experiences with a Fulbright residency at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
Jessica Lester and Michelle O’Reilly discuss ethics in sensitive research with children and youth, and offer practical tips.
Michelle O’Reilly and Jessica Lester discuss their research with children in this Methodspace interview.
Janet Salmons and Trena Paulus discuss trends in online qualitative research and their new books, Doing Qualitative Research Online and Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World.
With more and more of our communication occurring online, the records of such conversations are of interest to researchers. Learn about design considerations.
Trena Paulus and Jessica Lester discuss changes in online research and updates to their book, Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World.
Jessica Lester and Trena Paulus co-edited a December 2023 special issue for the Sage journal, Qualitative Inquiry, “Qualitative inquiry in the 20/20s: Exploring methodological consequences of digital research workflows.” Read the articles and watch a roundtable with contributors. This is the second of two discussions of the special issue.