On Tuesday, we found a chance to listen Trena Paulus, one of the authors of the book we use. I felt how we are lucky in terms of having online conversation with her. Her statements during conversation refreshed our learnings including what we have read in the Digital Tools for Qualitative Research and what we have discussed in the class. To give examples, she talked about the ways CAQDAS packages offer to help researchers such as transparency, collaboration, being close to data and so on. Additionally, she clarified very important points that might be concerns for us like the tension around IRB process.
I am a late adopter of technology as Dr. Paulus. Before I had the hesitation in using CAQDAS packages, but now I am very convinced that digital tools facilitate the task of researchers. However, my concern is now to find the appropriate digital tool as Mac user. It seems both Nvivo and Atlas.ti work well with PC. I do not know why Mac stays behind than PC at this point.
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