Week 2: 18 Jan - Data Collection: Ethics + Approaches

Week 2: 18 Jan - Data Collection: Ethics + Approaches

Qualitative data collection methods and tools are numerous. Selecting ethical and effective collection sources, instruments, and tools requires parallel critical assessment of project goals, data, and resources. This session will overview exploratory collection methods and tools.

Week 2: Jamboard

Readings:

• Ethics in Digital Research (PDF; K. Tiidenberg, 2018) OR
• Qualitative Data Reuse: Practices and Perils ~ 00:21:47
• Should You Build a Scraper?
• Consent Form Sample

Topics:

• Creating data: Surveys, interviews, and scraping
  • Tools versus instruments
  • Planning the data you want for the analysis you need
  • Operationalizing qualitative data: Defining concepts
  • Creating data for longevity: Life cycle of data
• Reusing Data: Existing qualitative data or datasets
  • Analog and digitized datasets
  • Access and acquisition
  • File and data types for different tools:Ex. Tabular versus textual

Tools:

• Qualtrics *$; free at CU
• Webscraper.io *demo, JW
• Social Media Macroscope
• Social Studio *demo, NK
• Apify
• oTranscribe

For Week 3, bring:

• Qualitative data analysis tool or method you are interested in or might use in a project, OR
• An example, reading, or tutorial of the analysis method or tool with URL or link.

Resources: Sage’s Little Blue Books and Sage’s QDA Methods Map