Dear All
are there any thoughts, papers etc out there which deal with this tricky
idea of the connections between software architecture and epistemological
assumpations that this creates? Something like NVivo might be considered to
be so freeform that it does presuppose any structure to the way information
is stored but perhapos there are more subtle markers of influence on the
way we work, for example using what is effectively a conceptual language of
nodes and trees. Im not sure that we can say these are universal or fully
intersubjective categories in relation to qualitative research. There is
also a more complex issue that people mioght use any piece of software in
their 'own' way which attemot to in some way subvert or alter the purpose
of certian aspects of a programme. Unfortuantely I dont have a wider enough
vocabulary of programmes (only Nudist and NVivo) tosee the differences
between the options. Just a thought,
cheers
Rowland
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