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Record W2748679506 · doi:10.29173/cjs29343

Salmons, Janet E., Doing Qualitative Research Online.

2017· article· en· W2748679506 on OpenAlex
Tracy X. Karner

Why this work is in the frame

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Journal of Sociology · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicFocus Groups and Qualitative Methods
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSociologyQualitative researchMedia studiesAnthropology

Abstract

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A s the internet becomes more integral to all aspects of our lives, so- cial scientists continue to grapple with its potential for our research endeavors.While many senior scholars and practitioners learned to do research without the internet or even without computers, students and new colleagues come to research as digital natives who are often quite comfortable with online settings and activities.Salmons, an independent researcher, writer and consultant who specializes in online communities, entrepreneurship and leadership in the digital age, is attempting to bridge the gap between qualitative methods before and after the internet.Her previous books, Online Interviews in Real Time (Sage, 2010), Cases in Online Interview Research (Sage, 2012) and Qualitative Online Interviews (Sage, 2015), demonstrate her sustained interest in the possibilities of our new digital age.In Doing Qualitative Research Online, Salmons carefully outlines the questions and details researchers need to attend to in designing their online research [e.g., aligning purpose and design, choice of extant, elicited, and enacted data, selecting ITC, addressing ethical issues, sampling, etc.].She utilizes her concept of "Qualitative e-Research Framework" (Salmon 2012) to organize the eleven chapters and provide a 'road map' throughout the text.Salmon provides an overview of the methodologies, methods and ethics for doing qualitative research online, and explores three types of online data collection-extant, elicited, and enacted.Early on, she argues that researches should not just "repurpose real-world data collection techniques" for a virtual world, but should instead employ digital approaches that make use of "text-based exchanges (messaging, email), multi-channel meeting spaces (e.g.Adobe Connect, WebEx), videoconferencing (full video with multiple participants) or video calls (e.g.Skype, Google Chat) or immersive virtual worlds (e.g.Second Life, games) [which] are fundamentally different from real-world, co-located interviews and observations" (xiii).

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.031
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Science and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.413
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0310.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0060.008
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.521
GPT teacher head0.630
Teacher spread0.109 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it