Abstract:
Emergent technologies have pushed against the boundaries of qualitative research practice. This didactic workshop will explore issues regarding how qualitative researchers can effectively apply new technological innovations, including the use of the internet, mobile phone technologies, geospatial technologies, and the incorporation of computer-assisted software programs, to collect and analyze both qualitative and mixed-methods data This seminar will:

(l) Provide an overview of some of the newest mobile technologies (using GPS) in the service of gathering qualitative data: The mobile phone allows the researcher to capture personal experience in real time and space. The collection of user
experience data has enormous implications for the study of human interaction. The researcher is able to study experience in context over an extended period of time using fewer resources and in a less obtrusive manner. We provide in-depth examples
how this technology might be applied to a qualitative research project. We will also discuss some of the ethical, issues emergent technologies raise for social researchers.

(2) Computer Assisted Software for Multi-media Analysis: We demonstrate the latest data gathering and analysis software for analyzing multi-mediated data qualitative data —web-based data, audio, video and images using the computer-assisted data
analysis package, HyperResearch (www.researchware.com)

(3). Transcription Software for Qualitative Data Analysis: We will also demonstrate cutting edge transcription software and discuss how the importance of transcription and its role in analyzing your qualitative data. We will demonstrate the transcription
software, HyperTranscribe (www.researchware.com).

Please note: This is not a hands-on seminar, but we will be demonstrating the software and provide you with a set of handouts. The seminar will last for 3 hours.

Session Organizer: Sharlene J. Hesse-Biber (Boston College)

For more information and to register, see http://www.asanet.org/meetings/10seminar.cfm