| Exploiting Digital Records: New Resources and Tools for Qualitative Research in Contemporary Social Science (2008) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Abstract. A wide range of computational tools are currently available for use within qualitative research, yet very few of these have actually been designed to support the diverse needs of the social sciences. The emergence of Grid computing and e-Social Science raises new possibilities for social science research, however. e-Social Science provides the opportunity to move beyond existing technologies and the promises of hypermedia to consider the production of digital records. Digital records consist of two distinct components: 1) resources internal to computational environments (such as text messages, voicemail, email, etc.), and 2) external resources gathered by a field worker (video and audio recordings, photographs, etc.). We present Replay Tool, which enables qualitative researchers to combine internal and external resources and generate faithful representations of social order in the media rich computational environments that populate everyday life. 1. | |||||||||||||||||
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