The readings of
this week elaborate the role of digital tools in supporting collaborative
research. In our previous class sessions, we have discussed that technological
tools help researchers to engage in reflective conversation, to edit projects
collaboratively, and to share resources. Also the guest speakers talked about
the contribution of teamwork in qualitative research when they use CAQDAS
packages like Atlas.ti or Nvivo. In
particular, digital tools are very functional and helpful in coding process such
as team members are able to compare the codes they assigned the texts. Coding a
study with teamwork seems to me increasing the validity of research. More than
one people check the study, it is a kind of triangulation.
Naime, great point about collaborative analysis functioning much like triangulation or any other validation strategy. While generally qualitative researchers approach group work as not necessarily being about inter-rater reliability, there is a validation aspect to group analysis. The capacity to track your group's thinking over time also serves to increase the veracity of your 'final' claims, as this serves as a very important audit trail to the entire process.
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