Qualitative Research Methods: Collecting Evidence, Crafting Analysis, Communicating Impact

By Sarah J. Tracy. 2012

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The Presence of Cell Phones in Romantic Partner Face-to-Face Interactions: An Expectancy Violation Theory Approach (2015, methodology): “We used rich, thick excerpts (Miles & Huberman, 1994) and researcher triangulation (Denzin, 1978; Patton, 1999; Tracy, 2013) to establish credibility of our findings.”
Describing Populations and Samples in Doctoral Student Research (2021, background): “An additional consideration is the skillset and experience of the interviewer to conduct the interview, notice opportunities to explore openings in the participant’s descriptions, ask probing questions to investigate the nature of the phenomenon, pick up on participant nonverbal cues, and to measure”
What is a theme? Teaching thematic analysis in qualitative communication research methods (2018, background): “This has the potential to present problems for teaching qualitative research methods because there are multiple ways students can interpret data and illustrate evocative findings (Tracy, 2013).”
Journalism is twerking? How web analytics is changing the process of gatekeeping (2014, methodology): “I assumed the observer-as-participant role (Lindlof and Taylor, 2010), taking notes during my observations and establishing good rapport with many of the editors (Tracy, 2013).”
Discovering the structures of lived experience (2018, methodology): “For example, the analysis process of Grounded Theory, which is, like the micro-phenomenological analysis method, an iterative and inductive process of abstraction, provides guidelines on how to identify categories and how to establish relationships between them (Tracy 2013).”
Social Media Influencers and Followers: Theorization of a Trans-Parasocial Relation and Explication of Its Implications for Influencer Advertising (2021, methodology): “The principal researcher, who has the theoretical knowledge, theorized the findings and contrasted them with existing theories (Tracy 2013).”
Impact of ChatGPT on ESL students’ academic writing skills: a mixed methods intervention study (2024, methodology): “A phronetic iterative approach (Tracy, 2019) was adopted in this case.”
Workplace Dignity: Communicating Inherent, Earned, and Remediated Dignity (2015, unknown): “I began with primary‐cycle coding, in which I analysed data to identify emergent patterns and meaningful categorizations (Tracy, 2013).”
Are tourism livelihoods sustainable? Tourism development and economic transformation on Komodo Island, Indonesia (2018, result): “The final step in the analysis consisted of data interpretation by comparing and contrasting the initial findings with the outcome of the literature review (Tracy, 2013).”