Douglas Ezzy wrote:
> >I am very interested in what real users of the tools think
> >about their appropriateness as outlined in the article. Are ATLAS.ti users
> >of the more chaotic "interconnected" and visual type and are Nud*ist users
> >more rigid, sequential and categorized?
Maybe we have to conduct a study to obtain a profile of the various groups of users. Maybe one
would find some commonalities and differences. I am not joking, I think it could be
potentially interesting study.
> If I may be allowed to guess and fantasise (that is all the following is):
> My "feel" - please correct me if I am wrong, is that the developers of
> ATLAS.ti have read European phenomenology along side symbolic
> interactionism, whereas NUDIST is more influenced by the later, more
> formalistic, exponents of grounded theory (Straus and Corbin, Basics of
> Qualitative Research). (I once heard that Tom Richards was a philosopher
> in a pervious incarnation - I'll bet $20 he didn't like phenomenology).
I think you are not far off the mark here.
For Ethnograph users:
If you are interested in the ideas that guided the development of the Ethnograph, you can
check out my web page.(QDA software, description of The Ethnograph). I worked closely together
with John for about 2 years, so I know his ideas best. I also tried to give a similar
background about the other packages I describe, however I don't know the other developers that
well.
> For those of us that have been listening long enough, remember the debate
> we had in 1995 about Ethnograph? I thought Susanne Friese had something
> very important to say responding to a Nudist enthusiast:
nice to hear that one sometimes finds the right words....
Susanne
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