Lyn and Tom Richards have written a lot - and I'm just about to post a
report on a conference held recently that touched on this very subject. I'm
also hoping to build a 'resource list' of good books that deal with the
epistemological issues at work in research methodology to put on the net so
anyone who has any recommendations - especially books suitable for
newcomers to qualitative research - could you send them to me (NOT TO THIS
LIST).
Send them to: [log in to unmask]
Thanks,
Sarah
(report will be posted later today)
-----Original Message-----
From: Rowland Atkinson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 20 October 2000 10:19
Subject: Epistemology and Software
>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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