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This is a call for papers for one or more sessions at the RC33 Sixth International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Amsterdam, August 16-20, 2004 to focus on qualitative computing.
Session Title: The achievements and challenges of qualitative computing
Fifteen years after the first international conference on qualitative computing (Surrey, 1989), there is amazingly little scholarly debate about qualitative software. This session is to host such debate - not to compare software products but to assess methodological change on the assumption that such change must be critiqued and directed.
Papers are invited for a session to stimulate discussion of both the achievements and the challenges of software development for qualitative research.
Topics include
* What has changed, and what has not changed, in qualitative methods? Where are the effects of software to be seen and how are they to be dealt with?
* How did early software affect methods? How to assess the adequacy of developments by which software has moved beyond these methods?
* What do we know of new qualitative techniques, encouraged by software?
* Developments and challenges of mixed qualitative-quantitative techniques, facilitated and encouraged by software development;
* Present and future issues of reliability and rigour of software-supported qualitative research;
* Adequacy of the variety and range of programs for the research fields requiring them.
For information on the conference, see http://www.siswo.uva.nl/rc33.
Abstracts can be sent directly to me [log in to unmask] or to the committee [log in to unmask]
cheers,
Lyn
Lyn Richards,
Director, Research Services, QSR.
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