Using Email Interviews in Qualitative Educational Research: Creating Space to Think and Time to Talk

Autor/in	James, Nalita
Titel	Using Email Interviews in Qualitative Educational Research: Creating Space to Think and Time to Talk
Quelle	In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 29 (2016) 2, S.150-163 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-8398
DOI	10.1080/09518398.2015.1017848
Schlagwörter	Electronic Mail; Interviews; Qualitative Research; Educational Research; Asynchronous Communication; Internet; Computer Mediated Communication; Personal Narratives; Reflection; Preferences; Pacing; Interpersonal Communication; Time; Research Methodology; Research Design; Data Collection; Discourse Analysis; Communities of Practice; Empowerment; Participation; Foreign Countries; Ethnography; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elektronischer Briefkasten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Qualitative Forschung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Computerkonferenz; Erlebniserzählung; Lerntempo; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Zeit; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Forschungsdesign; Data capture; Datensammlung; Diskursanalyse; Community; Teilnahme; Ausland; Ethnografie; Großbritannien
Abstract	The article explores how the Internet and email offer space for participants 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 article discusses how the asynchronous nature of email helps to facilitate this by allowing research participants to contribute to research in their space and according to their own preference in time, and engage in a process of reflection and interaction. However, it also argues for the construction of more collaborative approaches to research that acknowledge their right 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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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01