You've Got Mail … ! Using Email Interviews to Gather Academics' Narratives of Their Working Lives

Autor/in	James, Nalita
Titel	You've Got Mail … ! Using Email Interviews to Gather Academics' Narratives of Their Working Lives
Quelle	In: International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 40 (2017) 1, S.6-18 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1743-727X
DOI	10.1080/1743727X.2015.1056136
Schlagwörter	Electronic Mail; Interviews; Data Collection; College Faculty; Personal Narratives; Professional Identity; Teaching Experience; Computer Mediated Communication; Qualitative Research; Ethnography; Asynchronous Communication; Educational Research; Research Methodology; Educational Benefits; Pacing; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elektronischer Briefkasten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Data capture; Datensammlung; Fakultät; Erlebniserzählung; Computerkonferenz; Qualitative Forschung; Ethnografie; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Bildungsertrag; Lerntempo; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	The paper explores how computer-mediated communication offers space for academics to think and make sense of their experiences in the qualitative research encounter. It draws on a research study that used email interviewing to generate online narratives to understand academic lives and identities through research encounters in virtual space. The paper discusses how email can provide a site where the self can be viewed reflexively and re-negotiated through a process of interaction. The paper demonstrates that the asynchronous nature of email helps to facilitate this, by allowing participants to contribute to research in their space and according to their own preference in time. However, it also argues for the construction of more collaborative approaches to research that acknowledge the right of participants to use the temporal nature of space and time that email offers to construct, reflect upon and learn from their stories of experience in their own manner, and not merely to the researcher's agenda. It concludes by recognizing the importance of email as a research tool for capturing the complexity of social interaction online. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01