Negotiating Transcription as a Relative Insider: Implications for Rigor

Witcher, Chad

doi:10.1177/160940691000900201

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“…However, most hired transcriptionists are likely not engaged in lengthy conversations with the principal investigators (PIs) about the degree of selectivity they will engage in. Witcher (2010) therefore recommends that the researchers and the transcriptionist negotiate these issues at the start of the research. Rather than a unidirectional discussion in which the researcher names the ways in which she desires selectivity from her transcriptionist, this conversation could begin a collaborative enterprise in which the researcher and transcriptionist begin to discuss issues of selectivity and interpretation that will continue throughout the duration of the project.…”

Section: Transcriptsmentioning

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Dialoguing with the silent researcher: Rethinking the role of the transcriptionist in qualitative research

Hurst

McCallum

Tilles

2019

Methodological Innovations

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Even though transcription is a mainstay of qualitative research, transcription itself is rarely present in discussions of data collection or analysis. A meager body of literature exists that considers transcription as theory, but such literature tends to focus on the transcriptionist's choices. We have few empirical studies on transcription and the role of the transcriptionist. Drawing on frameworks of literacy as a sociocultural process and post-structural feminism, we investigate two cases that demonstrate how the transcriptionist can assume a generative role in research projects. Our data reveal how the transcriptionist shared interpretations, helped make methodological decisions, and was a reader who knew the full body of data. We argue for a reframing of our collective understanding of the transcriptionist and consider the benefits of, limitations to, and ethical issues in involving transcriptionists explicitly as co-researchers.

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Section: Transcriptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dialoguing with the silent researcher: Rethinking the role of the transcriptionist in qualitative research

Hurst

McCallum

Tilles

2019

Methodological Innovations

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“…Depending on the research purpose, pauses, stutters, utterances, volume, and emphasis can all be added. Transcription errors introduce inaccuracies into the transcript by omitting words, inserting sound-alike phrases instead of the uttered phrase, or mishandling colloquialisms or accented speech in ways that distort meaning (Poland, 1995, 2002; Witcher, 2010). …”

Section: Faltering Transcription Compromises Meaning: An Examplementioning

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A Transcription and Translation Protocol for Sensitive Cross-Cultural Team Research

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Assurance of transcript accuracy and quality in interview-based qualitative research is foundational for data accuracy and study validity. Based on our experience in a cross-cultural ethnographic study of women’s pelvic organ prolapse, we provide practical guidance to set up step-by-step interview transcription and translation protocols for team-based research on sensitive topics. Beginning with team decisions about level of detail in transcription, completeness, and accuracy, we operationalize the process of securing vendors to deliver the required quality of transcription and translation. We also share rubrics for assessing transcript quality and the team protocol for managing transcripts (assuring consistency of format, insertion of metadata, anonymization, and file labelling conventions) and procuring an acceptable initial translation of Spanish-language interviews. Accurate, complete, and systematically constructed transcripts in both source and target languages responds to the call for more transparency and reproducibility of scientific methods.

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“…During the process of transcribing recordings, the researcher (or professional transcriber) makes subjective decisions about what to include and what not to include (such as laughter, utterances and grammatical mistakes), and we often lose important context such as facial expressions, tone, and non-audible events (McLellan et al, 2003). Mistakes, inaudible passages or misinterpretations by a transcriber can lead to a disjuncture between an interviewee's intended meaning and the way the researcher interprets the narrative in the course of analysing the data (Witcher, 2010).…”

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Co-production and the third sector: A comparative study of England and France

McMullin¹

2018

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This thesis explores co-production between citizens and third sector professionals in England and France. I focus on five community regeneration organisations in Sheffield, England, and five in Lyon, France, followed by an analysis of comparator organisations in two further sectors of activity -parents' organisations, and projects to reduce older people's loneliness. The research is based on 57 semi-structured interviews, as well as event observations and documentary analysis. I employ an analytical framework of institutional logics to explore the ways in which the rules, practices and narratives of the case study organisations are specific to their city and national contexts and how these in turn drive and shape co-production practices.The study finds that while the Sheffield organisations are characterised by an assimilation of the state, community and market logics, the Lyon organisations demonstrate a blend of a 'Napoleonic state' logic, and a 'local solidarity' (rather than community) logic. These different combinations of logics illuminate two approaches to co-production. In France, co-production is informed by notions of citizenship, solidarity and participative democracy, leading to a greater focus on citizen involvement in organisational governance and greater influence of rules as an enabler and constraint to co-production. In Sheffield, co-production is seen as a way to improve communities, services and outcomes, and we therefore see more pragmatic attention to co-design and co-delivery activities. This thesis provides an important contribution both to co-production theory as well as to policy and practice, by demonstrating some of the cultural and contextual subjectivity of coproduction, which has been overlooked in previous studies. In addition, employing institutional theory to study co-production enables me to produce evidence of meso and macro level factors that influence co-production behaviour.ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Negotiating Transcription as a Relative Insider: Implications for Rigor

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

Dialoguing with the silent researcher: Rethinking the role of the transcriptionist in qualitative research

Dialoguing with the silent researcher: Rethinking the role of the transcriptionist in qualitative research

A Transcription and Translation Protocol for Sensitive Cross-Cultural Team Research

Co-production and the third sector: A comparative study of England and France

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