[Air-L] Fw: Re: Missing Data in Qualitative and Online Research

[Mohammad H. Hasani]

--- On Sat, 8/7/10, Mohammad H. Hasani <mh_hasani at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Mohammad H. Hasani <mh_hasani at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Missing Data in Qualitative and Online Research
To: "William Dutton" <william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk>
Date: Saturday, August 7, 2010, 12:59 PM





Generally speaking,  

1. I think missing data in a Qual research is data could make
a significant contribution to the grounded concept or theory but researcher
neglects or fails to collect. Repeating some phases in data collection/analysis,
conducting parallel Qual research or reverse previewing of the research
phases seems to help.  

2. The same for CMR, but here, the researcher should also pay more
attention to the cases; inappropriate cases may cause collecting poor data could
be seen as missed.  

Triangulated
observations may help in this case. 

   

Mohammad
H. Hasani, 

Instructor
in Sociology

 Payame Noor 
 University 

    





--- On Fri, 8/6/10, William Dutton <william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

From: William Dutton <william.dutton at oii.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: [Air-L] Missing Data in Qualitative and Online Research
To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Date: Friday, August 6, 2010, 8:17 AM

Dear List Members,

My colleagues and I would greatly appreciate your input to an exploratory project on missing data in qualitative and online research.* We would appreciate anything from your immediate reactions while reading this e-mail to detailed references to literature that has addressed our questions.

There are two very general but heuristically useful questions. Your views on either would be welcomed. Feel free to reply privately or to the list, as you
 wish.

1. What is ‘missing data’ in the context of qualitative research and how is it dealt with?

2. Likewise, in computer-mediated research, are researchers missing particular kinds of data, or believe that they are missing particular kinds of observations, and how are they compensating or otherwise addressing this gap?

Thoughts? Thank you,

Bill

*This is a collaborative project between the ESRC’s National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) ‘hub’ (Graham Crow, Rose Wiles), WISERD (Amanda Coffey), Oxford eSocial Science ‘node’ of NCeSS (Bill Dutton, Alison Powell), and Qualidata/Timescapes (Libby Bishop), based on our recognition of a shared but not well developed problem.

William Dutton, Director
Professor of Internet Studies
Oxford Internet Institute
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