Disruptive Meaning-Making

Qualitative Data Analysis Software and Postmodern Pastiche

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2386280
AutoresAmana Marie Le Blanc (University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD, USA)
Año2017
Volumen23
Número10
Páginas789-798
Fecha de publicación2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800417731087
OpenAlexW2762925166
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas37

This article examines the use of qualitative data analysis software (QDAS) as a means of disrupting conventional research practices. It is based on a study that used NVivo 10 toward the construction of a "postmodern pastiche" of research narratives. Although QDAS has frequently been touted as a means to assuage concerns that qualitative research lacks transparency, rigor, and validity by permitting such inquiry to be codified, quantified, and confined, this research used the tool toward the construction of counter-narratives. This study aimed to transform the digital tool via the use of "mutated dominant practices." NVivo 10's hypertextual environment subverted the authority of any one privileged telling and allowed for the creation of research narratives that were fluid, fragmented, and resisted closure. Underpinned by a postmodern theoretical perspective and using an alternative multicase methodology, this study explored the narratives of three self-identified female gamers

Aesthetics · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Postmodernism · Qualitative property · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Transparency (behavior · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Engineering · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Qualitative Research Methods and Applications