Investigating emotions by using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software

The rainbow connection: Disrupting background affect, overcoming barriers and emergent emotional collectives at “Pride in London”

“…Consistent with Braun and Clarke's (2006; 2019) reflexive thematic analytical approach, verbatim transcripts were created while listening for emotion and documenting the unspoken (Ahmed, 2004; Ayata et al., 2019; Rapley, 2007). The use of “emotion talk” (Edwards, 1999) or conventional emotion labels were limited (Sauerborn, 2019; Wetherell, 2012) therefore initial coding focused on the practice of discursively constructed affective, and affected, bodies, practice and interactions (Berg et al., 2019). Furthermore, group and individual emotions were expected to be indicated by emotional language referencing a wider collective, such as attributions to “we” or “us” or expressed in a manner suggestive of collectively owned emotion (León & Zahavi, 2018; Salmela, 2012; Salmela & Nagatsu, 2016; Tuomela, 2013).…”