The Qualitative Report
Fourth
Annual Conference
Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA
January 18 - 19, 2013
Sponsored by the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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The Qualitative Report |
| Nova Southeastern University Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA January 18 - 19, 2013 Sponsored by the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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The first qualitative research technology were the researchers themselves. As the primary instrument qualitative researchers used their human senses to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel the world around them. Through these channels researchers generated data and then used their cognitive abilities to make sense of the qualities represented by this data. As qualitative research progressed, the beginnings of new technologies could be seen in the enterprise. Pencils and paper in the field and typewriters in the office led to handheld devices on location and qualitative data analysis programs in the clouds. All along this evolutionary pathway, these technologies not only help researchers perform their instrumental duties, but also helped the change the nature of these acts themselves to the point that the prominence of the qualitative researcher as main instrument in qualitative research may be called into question by the dominance of technological advancements. Qualitative researchers are not alone in these challenging encounters with technologies in their everyday lives. Each of us in our daily activities can observe the greater and greater place technology plays in how we live, work, and play. Discovering how we utilize these technologies, how we experience them, and how we enact change with them are all wonderful areas in which we as qualitative researchers can engage our inquiries. At TQR2013, we want to explore technology and the qualitative researcher by featuring works of and on qualitative inquiry that exemplify the presence of technology in life and in our research about this technology-infused state-of-living. To this end we encourage prospective presenters to submit their paper and paper panel proposals that will inspire conference attendees to consider technology's ubiquity in all its forms. Be it in business, education, government, healthcare, recreation, and home life, we are interested in studies which such a focus. We are also very interested in presentations on the application of new technologies in the practice and performance of qualitative research. As always, we are also open to receiving creative presentation forms and content especially those proposals incorporating technology in effective and creative ways. The call for submissions is now closed. Over the next few weeks we will share more details about TQR2013 including our first call for posters and exhibitors. |
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For more information please email tqr@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University publishes The Qualitative Report, a peer-reviewed, weekly open access journal. Subscription to TQR is free-of-charge. To unsubscribe please email your request to TQR at tqr@nova.edu. Nova Southeastern University is also home to the online Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research. For
more information, please contact
Ronald J. Chenail, Ph.D.
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Sharlene Janice Nagy
Hesse-Biber is Professor of Sociology and the Director of Women's Studies
& Gender Studies Program at Boston College in Chestnut Hill,
Massachusetts. She has written widely on methodological and methods
issues, including the role of technology and emergent methods in social
research. She is the editor of the 