Assumptions, Emotions, and Interpretations as Ethical Moments: Navigating a Small-Scale Cross-Cultural Online Interviewing Study

Autor/in	Frisoli, Paul St. John
Titel	Assumptions, Emotions, and Interpretations as Ethical Moments: Navigating a Small-Scale Cross-Cultural Online Interviewing Study
Quelle	In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 23 (2010) 4, S.393-405 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-8398
Schlagwörter	Interviews; Internet; Ethics; Foreign Countries; Barriers; Cross Cultural Studies; Computer Mediated Communication; Misconceptions; Ethnography; Influence of Technology; Electronic Mail; Synchronous Communication; Researchers; Research Problems; Reflection; Research Methodology; Qualitative Research; Interpersonal Relationship; Intercultural Communication; Affective Behavior; Emotional Response; Communication Problems; Social Science Research; Guinea + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Ethik; Ausland; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Computerkonferenz; Missverständnis; Ethnografie; Elektronischer Briefkasten; Researcher; Forscher; Forschungskritik; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Qualitative Forschung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Emotionales Verhalten; Kommunikationsbarriere; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung
Abstract	In this paper, I map important "messy" elements that I learned from my five-month small-scale research project, one that was designed around pivotal works on online social research. I used computers and the Internet with Minan, a young man living in Guinea, West Africa, in order to examine his perceptions surrounding the value of these technological tools for his future. Throughout the paper, I address multiple levels of ethics in practice such as recognizing the different effects that the Internet environment can have on participants, the realities that cross-cultural barriers pose the researcher and the participant, the impact of previous relationships on the research process, and how meanings produced by language are easily misinterpreted via the Internet. As a result, I assert that during online social research, reflexivity is a moral obligation, where meaning and representation can have a tendency to be skewed, especially when working in cross-cultural situations. (Contains 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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