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Technological Systems in Qualitative Inquiry

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ID18992148
AuthorsSusan Nordstrom (0000-0002-5102-2053, University of Memphis, TN, USA, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume29
Issue10
Pages1002-1011
Publication date2023-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10778004231163501
OpenAlexW4362634394
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

This article is a tangle of threads made possible by theoretical and practical snags in my work with qualitative inquiry technology. One snag pulls at the term “technology” and its etymology to think about technology as a creative system used in the production of knowledge. That snag leads to a study of early anthropological work and technology to better understand the history that feeds into qualitative inquiry. And another snag considers who and what is involved in the making of technological tools used in research. These unraveling snags entangle together to consider technology as an open-ended system consisting of a variety of tools used to create political, cultural, and social realities. Such thinking offers a space to contemplate how technological advances have shaped qualitative inquiry’s past, present, and future. The forceful snags studied in this article begin to ask the question, “Can we think of qualitative inquiry without technology?”

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · History of technology · Political science · Politics · Qualitative research · Snag · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · History · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Ecology

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