Qualitative Research Writing

A Joint Autoethnography on Collecting Qualitative Data Remotely: Insights From Doctoral Students’ Experiences

“…In such meetings and follow-ups, we provided detailed explanations regarding the technological tools to be used (cameras and microphones), gaining access to the settings and participants, the purpose of the observations, and what exactly we wanted to get through the observations, among other aspects which the assistants asked in the training. Thus, relevant prerequisites for remote observations described by Hager et al (2012) and Mirhosseini (2020) were met. Yet, as we will demonstrate in the following sections, other factors may affect the access of the research assistants to the participants as well as the kind of data we obtain via remote observations.…”

“…Similarly, from our experience, we learnt that audio-recordings present another drawback in cases where the researcher wants to observe not only the language used but also the actions and behaviours taking place in EFL classes, which are inherent to everyday interactions. As noted by Mirhosseini (2020), well-prepared research assistants can be a valuable addition in this context. In such cases, as we did it, the audio-recording is accompanied by a general description of what the assistants had observed following the researchers’ instructions.…”

“…The first one was related to finding participants and ascertaining that the data was collected from the relevant individuals. Therefore, after following ethical protocols to gain access to the settings, we initially contacted one EFL lecturer from whom we obtained other contacts of ideal participants for our study based on the criteria that we had already established (Mirhosseini, 2020). One such criteria was that the participants would be EFL lecturers at university level, teaching undergraduate students.…”

“…That is, those who did not participate in the study would still take the printed surveys but would not return them. Although looking at the general number of people initially contacted, our response rate was lower, the advantage of carrying out a remote qualitative survey was that the collected data provided us enough information that we even experienced saturation (Mirhosseini, 2020) whereby some answers of the last three participants were similar or the same from the first five participants who had submitted their responses.…”

Cctv customer location data processing on webgis based a & s security system

“…This can be seen from the many definitions of GIS that have been circulating in various sources of literature (Asmorojati, 2022). More than that, GIS is also a field of study of science and technology that has not been developed for too long, is used by various fields or disciplines and is growing rapidly (Rosyada, 2020).…”