TY - JOUR AU - Fielding, Nigel PY - 2012/05/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Diverse Worlds and Research Practices of Qualitative Software JF - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research JA - FQS VL - 13 IS - 2 SE - Looking into the Future DO - 10.17169/fqs-13.2.1845 UR - https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1845 SP - AB - <p>The article considers the way that digital research technologies and online environments increasingly support new forms of qualitative research that have emerged as a result of new user groups taking up the practice of social research. New practitioners of qualitative research have entered the field from societies where qualitative research is a newly-established practice, and new cadres of "citizen researchers" have turned to qualitative methods for non-academic purposes. These groups challenge accepted understandings of qualitative methods. The article uses the example of qualitative software as a case study of how qualitative research is enabled by new digital tools that help new user groups extend the application of qualitative research methods.</p><p>URN: <a href="http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1202124">http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1202124</a></p> ER -