Qualitative 3

Question 1

Methods for collecting digital data:

Answer 1

Primary Research - actively from participants:

• through direct questioning
• record digital material using video cameras

Secondary Research - collecting published materials via social media, web sites, blogs, chats rooms or other online forum:

• research uses pre- existing(naturally accusing or unsolicited data
• data likely to be multi - middle including text and images

Question 2

Types of data:

Answer 2

Documentary web based data: - SR
Blogs
Tweets
News stories

Visual web - based data: - SR
YouTube
Stock photo
Cartoon

Participant; PR
Photo
Video diary

Question 3

Methods of analysing digital data:

Answer 3

Discourse - method of analysing organisation, events and processes

Visual - phenomena are as important as linguistic structures of meaning in the constitution of organisation life

Question 4

Conceptual machinery…

Answer 4

Discourse analysis is a methodology that explains how we know the social and organisational world by the processes of social and organisational life and thus the relationship between discourse and reality.

Question 5

What is discourse???

Answer 5

Is made up of only form of semiotic i.e meaning a making activity.

• written documents, verbal reports, artwork, spoken words, pictures, symbols, buildings and other artefacts.

Question 6

Discourse 2??

Answer 6

A discourse is a standardised ways of referring to constituting a certain kind of phenomena

• group of statement which provide a language for talking about a topic and a way of knowledge about a topic

Question 7

Discourse Analysis??

Answer 7

Methodology that draws on theories of discourses and social constructionism.

Concerned with identifying discourse and the processes of their social construction
- can be applied to any semiotic activity (talk,text, image, spatial arrangement - all of these can be data)

Question 8

Contribution of social construction:

Answer 8

• to challenge the nation that language simply reflects reality
• language is constitutive of social reality, focusing on the role of language in shape social practice and social reality.

Question 9

Thread stages to Analysis??

Answer 9

• coding for generational labels
• thematic analysis of data
• discursive analysis of texts

Question 10

Digital Ethics???

Answer 10

• confidentiality and anonymity
• right to give consent and to withdraw
• possibility of recognition and identification

Question 11

Why digital??

Answer 11

Post of wider challenge to assumption that organising necessarily occurs in organisation

Management studies has had a blind spot in responding to the visual turn

Digital technology allows a a redistribution of methods between, devices, information and users in the online environment.