scholarly journals Whats and Hows? The Practice-Based Typology of Narrative Analyses

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 120-142
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Bryda
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
English Language ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
Analytical Approaches

The nature of qualitative research practices is multiparadigmaticity which creates coexistence of different research and analytical approaches to the study of human experience in the living world. This diversity is particularly observed in the contemporary field of narrative research and data analysis. The purpose of this article is a methodological reflection on the process of developing typology and a proposition of new data-driven and practice-based typology of narrative analyses used by qualitative researchers in the lived experience research. I merge the CAQDAS, Corpus Linguistics, and Text Mining procedures to examine the analytical strategies inherited in a vivid language of English-language research articles, published in five influential qualitative methodological journals between 2002-2016. Using the dictionary-based content analysis in the coding process, hierarchical clustering, and topic modeling – a text-mining tool for discovering hidden semantic structures in a textual body – I confront Catherine Kohler Riessman’s heuristic typology with the data-driven approach in order to contribute the more coherent image of narrative analysis in the contemporary field of qualitative research. Finally, I propose a new model of thinking about the typology of narrative analyses based upon research practices.

Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research

2014 ◽  
pp. 164-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kum-Kum Bhavnani ◽  
Peter Chua ◽  
Dana Collins
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Critical Ethnography ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Situated Knowledges ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Critical Social

This chapter reflects on critical strategies in qualitative research. It examines the meanings and debates associated with the term “critical,” in particular, contrasting liberal and dialectical notions and practices in relation to social analysis and qualitative research. The chapter also explores how critical social research may be synonymous with critical ethnography in relation to issues of power, positionality, representation, and the production of situated knowledges. It uses Bhavnani’s framework to draw on Dana Collins’ research as a specific case to suggest how the notion of the “critical” relates to ethnographic research practices: ensuring feminist and queer accountability, resisting reinscription, and integrating lived experience.

scholarly journals Tensor decomposition of TMS-induced EEG oscillations reveals data-driven profiles of antiepileptic drug effects

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Tangwiriyasakul ◽  
I. Premoli ◽  
L. Spyrou ◽  
R. F. Chin ◽  
J. Escudero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cortical Excitability ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Drug Effects ◽  
Tensor Decomposition ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Multidimensional Data ◽  
Induced Response ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
Analytical Approaches

AbstractTranscranial magnetic stimulation combined with electroencephalography is a powerful tool to probe human cortical excitability. The EEG response to TMS stimulation is altered by drugs active in the brain, with characteristic “fingerprints” obtained for drugs of known mechanisms of action. However, the extraction of specific features related to drug effects is not always straightforward as the complex TMS-EEG induced response profile is multi-dimensional. Analytical approaches can rely on a-priori assumptions within each dimension or on the implementation of cluster-based permutations which do not require preselection of specific limits but may be problematic when several experimental conditions are tested. We here propose an alternative data-driven approach based on PARAFAC tensor decomposition, which provides a parsimonious description of the main profiles underlying the multidimensional data. We validated reliability of PARAFAC on TMS-induced oscillations before extracting the features of two common anti-epileptic drugs (levetiracetam and lamotrigine) in an integrated manner. PARAFAC revealed an effect of both drugs, significantly suppressing oscillations in the alpha range in the occipital region. Further, this effect was stronger under the intake of levetiracetam. This study demonstrates, for the first time, that PARAFAC can easily disentangle the effects of subject, drug condition, frequency, time and space in TMS-induced oscillations.

Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 242-262
Author(s):  
Kum-Kum Bhavnani ◽  
Peter Chua ◽  
Dana Collins
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Critical Ethnography ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Situated Knowledges ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Critical Social

This chapter reflects on critical strategies in qualitative research. It examines the meanings and debates associated with the term critical, in particular, contrasting liberal and dialectical notions and practices in relation to social analysis and qualitative research. The chapter also explores how critical social research may be synonymous with critical ethnography in relation to issues of power, positionality, representation, and the production of situated knowledges. It uses Bhavnani’s framework to draw on Dana Collins’s research as a specific case to suggest how the notion of the critical relates to ethnographic research practices: ensuring feminist and queer accountability, resisting reinscription, and integrating lived experience.

scholarly journals Customers’ experiences of fast food delivery services: uncovering the semantic core benefits, actual and augmented product by text mining

2020 ◽  
Vol 122 (11) ◽  
pp. 3513-3528
Author(s):  
Thorsten Teichert ◽  
Sajad Rezaei ◽  
Juan C. Correa
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Food Delivery ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
Delivery Services ◽  
Brand Satisfaction

PurposeThis study conceptualizes food delivery services as service mix decisions (SMDs) and illustrates a data-driven approach for the analysis of customers' written experiences.Design/methodology/approachWeb scraping, text mining techniques as well as multivariate statistics are combined to uncover the structure of the three tiers of SMD from consumers' point of view.FindingsThe analyses reveal that fast food delivery is not primarily about speed but that there are four distinct experiential factors to be considered for SMDs. Fast food delivery services are associated both with the actual product (i.e. product issues and brand satisfaction) and with the augmented product (payment process and service handling).Originality/valueFindings demonstrate the relevance of SMDs in omnichannel food retail environments and guide researchers in multistage analyses of consumers' online food reviews.

Collective Fieldwork Interviews in the Classroom Without Walls

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-380
Author(s):  
Daniel Makagon
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Experiential Pedagogy ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Learning Focused

This article uses a course that meets from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. as a context to critically examine collective collaborative fieldwork as an experiential pedagogy that helps students better understand and practice qualitative fieldwork interviews. A collective interviewing experience can provide each student with practice and establish a situation for relatively sustained learning-focused dialogue and debate about interviewing ethics. With this context in mind, I critically examine how interviewing participants in a group scenario can help students understand spurned interview requests, the effects on researcher-participant relationships, and the alteration of temporal and spatial scenes in which interviews take shape as well as teach students about the important nuances of translation during interviews. Taken together, these four issues offer important ways to think about team-based fieldwork projects as an alternative to lone-ethnographer models of research practices that are foregrounded in qualitative research literature and in fieldwork-based courses.

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