[Air-l] More on qualitative analysis

[Elizabeth Van Couvering]

Hi all,

Following up a little on the previous discussion -For my thesis, I  
used atlas.ti to code and analyse my interview transcripts.  Last  
year, though, I bought a new Mac iBook which, while great for  
everything else, seems a bit disadvantaged when it comes to  
qualitative analysis software.  I'm trying to find a decent and  
affordable program to use for some smaller projects since our  
institution only provides PC software, and I wondered if the list  
could help.

So far, I've been to the CAQDAS site at Surrey and looked at their  
most recent review.  They suggest Transana (free and open source) and  
HyperResearch (emphatically NOT free).  Transana is a big bear of a  
program, meant specially to handle audio and video files, but I've  
yet to get it to work on my system, despite learning more about video  
encoding than I ever really wanted to know.  HyperResearch is outside  
my budget.  I've seen another program called TAMS but it looks like  
its text-only analysis.  Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Best regards,

Elizabeth

PS I've also tried atlas.ti running on virtual PC on my Mac  
previously, while still doing my research work, but it was so slow I  
broke down and cried and then went to a public PC at the university  
and did my coding there.

Elizabeth Van Couvering
PhD Student
Department of Media & Communications
London School of Economics and Political Science
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/vancouve/
e.j.van-couvering at lse.ac.uk