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Lyn -- I will be submitting something for this conference. If you know of others who will be attending from my network, do let me know. I have two ideas for sessions. First, I'm thinking about a session that examines the feasibility of a single package to meet multiple methodologies. I actually think this will be a research study, where I will interview researchers who have diverse and very focused methodologies, show them NVivo, and discuss where the package does or doesn't meet their methodology. My goal here isn't to push NVivo, but to actually show how the same function in NVivo (or any other package) can be perceived differently by individuals who come from different methodologies. In sum, it's about the social construction of the software (what's good, what's bad, what's useful) BECAUSE of the methodological lens through which any package is viewed. My assumption while beginning this research Is that researchers have pre-defined understandings of what a tool should do for them. I'm also thinking about a session that would examine how different functions in software packages (NVivo, most likely) can generate discussion/debate/exercises about methodological differences. In other words, this is about using a software to examine the debates in qualitative research. This latter session sounds more like the teacher conference paper, but perhaps I'll stick with this thread. Any thoughts? -----Original Message----- From: qual-software [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lyn Richards Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 8:22 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Call for papers for RC33 Amsterdam conference 2004 - on qualitative computing ***Please don't reply to the list: answers to addresses below!*** 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. (Email) [log in to unmask] (Ph) +61 (03) 9840-1100. (Fax) +61 (03) 9840-1500 (Snail) Second floor, 651 Doncaster Rd., Doncaster, Vic 3108, Australia. http://www.qsrinternational.com