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This article serves as an introduction to the FQS special issue 'Participatory Qualitative Research'. In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in participatory research strategies. The articles in this special issue come from different disciplines. Against the background of concrete empirical research projects, they address numerous conceptual considerations and methodological approaches. After reading the contributions, and engaging with the authors' arguments, the authors were prompted to focus in particular on those areas in which further work needs to be done. They include, on the one hand, fundamental principles of participatory research, such as democratic-theory considerations, the concept of 'safe space', participation issues, and ethical questions. And, on the other hand, the authors focus an practical research considerations regarding the rote and tasks of the various participants; specific methodological approaches; and quality criteria - understood here in the sense of arguments justifying a participatory approach. The authors' aim is to stimulate a broad discussion that does not focus only on participatory research in the narrower sense. Because participatory methodology poses certain knowledge- and research-related questions in a radical way, it has the potential to draw attention to hitherto neglected areas in qualitative methodology and to stimulate their further development.

1. Introduction -- 2. The Internet -- 3. Internet-Mediated Research: State of the Art -- 4. Sampling in Internet-Mediated Research -- 5. Ethics in Internet-Mediated Research -- 6. Tools and Design Strategies for Internet-Mediated Rsearch -- 7. What Can Go Wrong?

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series foreword -- 1 Defining key terms -- 2 A history -- 2.1 Starting points and forerunners -- 2.2 The rise and fall of classic community studies -- 2.3 Reconsideration and renewal -- 3 Three exemplars -- 3.1 Divisions of Labour -- 3.2 The British on the Costa del Sol -- 3.3 The Other Side of Middletown -- 4 Worthwhileness -- 4.1 Useful and interesting research -- 4.2 Interesting and useful research -- 4.3 The capacity to surprise -- 5 Criticisms and defences -- 5.1 Are community studies too parochial? -- 5.2 Are community studies too static? -- 5.3 Are community studies too positive? -- 5.4 Are community studies too descriptive? -- 5.5 Are community studies too prosaic? -- 6 Summary and where next? -- References -- Index.