Abstract:The author reflects on the attitudes of scholars in the humanities and social sciences to digitalization and to work with data stored in digital archives. Her aim is, first, to point out concerns in regard to making source material from research available, and second, to discuss the ethical and methodological dilemmas connected with reusing existing data in qualitative studies. The author presents the pragmatic and ideological motivations that could incline scholars to share material from their research. She a… Show more
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