ConnectedText; any case studies?

Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 23, 2012 at 03:41 AM

Dr Andus wrote:
>So basically
>what I have done here is I have carried out a qualitative analysis of textual research
>data, by “coding the data” (thematising it), and then carry out several operations of
>abstraction, by drawing out and consolidating the research findings. I like to think
>about it as a “bubbling up” process, as I’m going from the particular text (the
>interview transcript) and I gradually move to a more abstract (higher) level, by
>dragging out the findings, reaching eventually the top level of abstraction, which
>will constitute the theoretical contribution of my study.

The “bubbling up” metaphor though might not be the best to describe what’s happening. It is more of a manual process of pulling, extracting, dragging out findings from the text, and it all happens in a flat wiki world. Nevertheless some kind of a structure or hierarchy emerges out of this space, where the central node (the Findings page) eventually becomes the top level of the hierarchy.