Book contents
- Collecting Qualitative Data
- Collecting Qualitative Data
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, Tables and Boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Collecting Textual, Media and Virtual Data in Qualitative Research
- Part I Textual Data Collection
- Part II Media Data Collection
- Part III Virtual Data Collection
- 10 ‘Type Me Your Answer’
- 11 A Productive Chat
- 12 ‘I’m Not with You, Yet I Am …’
- 13 Meeting in Virtual Spaces
- Afterword
- Glossary
- Index
- References
10 - ‘Type Me Your Answer’
Generating Interview Data via Email
from Part III - Virtual Data Collection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 October 2017
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Book contents
- Collecting Qualitative Data
- Collecting Qualitative Data
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, Tables and Boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Collecting Textual, Media and Virtual Data in Qualitative Research
- Part I Textual Data Collection
- Part II Media Data Collection
- Part III Virtual Data Collection
- 10 ‘Type Me Your Answer’
- 11 A Productive Chat
- 12 ‘I’m Not with You, Yet I Am …’
- 13 Meeting in Virtual Spaces
- Afterword
- Glossary
- Index
- References
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- Collecting Qualitative DataA Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques, pp. 211 - 212Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
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Further Resources: Online
The Research Ethics Guidebook is a resource for social science researchers; for students, it provides help with writing a research proposal or ethics application and dealing with ethical dilemmas: www.ethicsguidebook.ac.uk
The British Psychological Society provides ethical guidance for Internet-mediated research: www.bps.org.uk/&/inf206-guidelines-for-Internet-mediated-research.pdf
Further Resources: Readings
For a comparison of face-to-face, telephone and email interviews, see McCoyd, J. L. M. and Kerson, T. S. (2006). Conducting intensive interviews using email: A serendipitous comparative opportunity. Qualitative Social Work, 5(3), 389–406.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
For a useful comparison of face-to-face and email interviews by focusing on issues relating to time, space and technology, see Bampton, R. and Cowton, C. J. (2002). The e-interview. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 3(2), article 9. Retrieved from: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs020295Google Scholar
For a useful discussion of various practical benefits and ethical issues around email interviews for researchers, as well as participants – especially those with disabilities – see Bowker, N. and Tuffin, K. (2004). Using the online medium for discursive research about people with disabilities. Social Science Computer Review, 22(2), 228–241.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
For a paper that explores email interviews amongst other online research methods, and draws on three research projects over ten years to suggest online, textual interactive interviews are worthy of research consideration, see Crichton, S. and Kinash, S. (2003). Virtual ethnography: Interactive interviewing online as method. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 29(2), Spring/Printemps, www.cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/40/37Google Scholar
For a discussion of inclusivity in email interviews, showing how email interviews can be used to facilitate research participation by people with impaired verbal communication, see Ison, N. (2009). Having their say: Email interviews for research data collection with people who have verbal communication impairment. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 12(2), 161–172.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
For a discussion of some challenges of email interviewing, see James, N. (2007). The use of email interviewing as a qualitative method of inquiry in educational research. British Educational Research Journal, 33(6), 963–97.Google Scholar
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