Suchergebnisse

Summary
The growing availability of historical media-related data and sources in digital form, and the development of tools for searching, analyzing, and visualizing them, provide promising new avenues for media studies research. But the uptake of these data and tools in mainstream media studies is still rather modest. The author argues that exploiting the advantages of computational research is necessary because scholars are already using digital data and tools, and because they will be disadvantaged if they do not critically engage with them. Computational media research requires increased methodological awareness and an improved transparency and responsiveness of data and tools.

The development plan is the signed appendix to the benefit decision notice in which the administrative agency defines the client's path towards employment and in which the rights and obligations of both parties to ensure the successful completion of the plan are laid down. The development plan is given shape in accordancy with the resources to be put in. The administrative agency is authorized to draw up this plan, or to issue instructions for it o be drawn up, in consultation with the client, on grounds of legislation in a formal sense or a municipal ordinance. The development plan as a tool was included in the Dutch National Assistance Act (Abw), the Dutch Act on Income Provisions for Older and Partially Disabled Unemployed Persons (IOAW) and the Dutch Act on Income Provisions for Older and Partially Disabled Formerly Self-employed Persons (IOAZ) in 1996 and in the Dutch Jobseekers Employment Act (WIW) in 1998. In 2002 the tool was also included in the employee benefit schemes with the introduction of the Dutch Act on the Structure of the Implementation of the Work and Income Act (SUWI Act). The purpose of this research is to answer the question whether this tool should be used in reintegration projects and why the development plan is the right tool. The research question reads: Is the development plan a suitable tool for the reintegration of benefits recipients and unemployed persons not entitled to a benefit?

Using online communities as a market research tool
Using online communities as a market research tool
This article describes the methodological advantages and disadvantages regarding the use of online communities as a market research tool.The advantages include the facilitation of an ethnographic approach due to the use of multiple research methods, the anonymity of a virtual environment, and the effect of unconscious thought processing. This allows for greater insights into the life worlds of consumers. Nonetheless, there are also disadvantages. The lack of body language makes the interpretation process more difficult. In addition, there is also loss of respondent interaction, especially in comparison to traditional focus group discussions.

Under the surface of everyday care. On the development of an underwater screen, an
instrument that identifies institutional influences on the everyday care
relationship
Under the surface of everyday care. On the development of an underwater screen, an
instrument that identifies institutional influences on the everyday care
relationship
In our qualitative research project we look at the everyday interactions between
young people with a mild intellectual disability and their caregivers, and we are
interested in the institutional impact on the everyday dealings. We have developed an
analysis tool that helps to identify these institutional influences. In addition, we
have used the research methodology institutional ethnography. This tool also offers
opportunities for other areas of research, because it sensitizes the researchers for
the ruling relations that shape the everyday interaction between people.

Below the surface of everyday care (Part II): Working with the underwater screen in the analysis of research on interaction between lvb youth and their caregivers
In our qualitative research project we look at the everyday interaction between young people with a mild intellectual disability and their caregivers, and we are interested in the institutional impact on the everyday dealings. We have developed an analysis tool that helps identify these institutional influences. In addition, we have used the research methodology Institutional Ethnography. This tool also offers opportunities for other areas of research, because it sensitizes the researchers for the ruling relations that shape the everyday interaction between people. In Part 1 of this article (KWALON 2015, 3), we describe the development of our underwater screen. In this article (Part 2), we discuss the operation of the instrument.

The most different similar outcome/most similar different outcome (MDSO/MSDO) technique. A tool for the selection of causally relevant conditions in a database with a limited number of cases
The most different similar outcome/most similar different outcome (MDSO/MSDO) technique. A tool for the selection of causally relevant conditions in a database with a limited number of cases
In this contribution we discuss the potential of the most different similar outcome/most similar different outcome technique. The technique enables a researcher to cope with the degrees of freedom problem (large number of conditions/small number of cases). Through a systematic comparison of pairs of cases, the method identifies the conditions of likely most explanatory relevance to understand differences and similarities in outcome. The actual causal power of the conditions and the underlying causal mechanisms can be subsequently explored with other qualitative methods. The technique relies on the same causal assumptions as other configurational comparative methods, such as qualitative comparative analysis.

Summary
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the 'state of the art of QDA or CAQDAS software. The author uses Kahneman's ideas about slow and fast thinking as a framework. Slow thinking in the context of CAQDAS is related to researcher driven analysis and fast thinking to tool- and data driven analysis. The paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, the author describes trends and new developments and in the second part, she offers a critical appraisal.

Alert4you: monitoring study on the practice of collaboration between childcare and youth care
Alert4you: monitoring study on the practice of collaboration between childcare and youth care
This article describes the monitor of the project Alert4you, conducted by the Netherlands Youth Institute. The project Alert4you is a collaboration between youth care and children's day care. The project's objective is earlier detection of unusual behaviour in children, providing better support tools to pedagogical staff and improving cooperation with parents. The article describes the monitor's research design and results. In addition, the researchers describe the advantages of this research method.

"The European Union is today a major player in many policy areas, going from classic economic fields as competition policy, agriculture and fisheries policy to new emergent fields as environmental policy, arterial intelligence policy, security and foreign policy and criminal justice policy. These policies comes with an increasing level of EU regulation, having also a substantive impact on the harmonization of national policies and regulations. This expansion of EU competence naturally also places new demands on their enforcement, especially when it comes to investigations with the aim of imposing punitive administrative and/or criminal sanctions. In this expanded version of his valedictory lecture Prof. Vervaele is assessing 1) to what extent the EU and its Member States have a policy on punitive enforcement in the internal market and in the Area of Freedom Security and Justice and 2) how this policy translates into the harmonization of substantive administrative and criminal law and procedural law at the national level and into the elaboration of administrative and judicial cooperation instruments and the setting up of European enforcement agencies. The assessment includes to what extent this policy takes account of the human rights obligations. Vervaele concludes with a plea for a European model for punitive law enforcement with an increased alignment between the administrative enforcement tools in the internal market and the criminal enforcement tools in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. In this model the national enforcement authorities are build in under a network cooperation scheme."--

Summary
Nowadays, research without a role for digital data and data analysis tools is barely possible. As a result, we see an increasing interest in research data management, as this enables the replication of research outcomes and the reuse of research data for new research activities. Data management planning outlines how to handle data, both during research and after the research is completed. Trusted data repositories are places were research data are archived and made available for the long term. This article covers the state of the art concerning data management and data repository demands with a focus on qualitative data sets.

Changes in computer science, information gathering, and the possibilities of the internet continue to vastly influence the way social sciences and humanities are dealing with data collection and analysis. The next KWALON Conference on Qualitative Data Analysis Software aims to organize the reflection on the implications of the recent innovations and trends. Developers and users of software have been invited to reflect on the developments of the past years, and to take them as a starting point for a discussion of the requirements for the future versions of QDA tools. We aim for a fruitful debate between developers and users. Apart from practitioners, trainers, and other end users, participants will include representatives from (in alphabetical order): ATLAS.ti, Cassandre, Dedoose, Feldpartitur, F4 analyse, MAXQDA, NVivo, DiscoverText, QDA Miner and Quirkos.

"How to navigate the rapidly changing digital geopolitics of the world today? How do we make sense of digital transformation and its many social, political, cultural, and environmental implications at different locations around the world? Vertical Atlas brings together the insights of a diverse group of internationally renowned artists, scientists and technologists from different backgrounds and places. From an investigation into the lithium mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo to maps of the fiber-optic submarine cables in the Atlantic and the ride-hailing platforms of China. Vertical Atlas is not a classic atlas that depicts the world in a uniform manner and it is not a simple collection of traditional maps. This book is a tool that enables comparisons, connections and contradictions between different and diverse visions, realities and worlds – through newly commissioned diagrams, interviews, essays and works of art by leading experts from around the world."--

Story research. Doing justice to the complexity of stories from the field
Story research. Doing justice to the complexity of stories from the field
The article derives from the author's thesis Exploring voices exploring appropriate education: practitioners' discourse and focuses on its methodological part.Cilliers claims that scientific research needs new approaches in order to understand complex issues. Lefebvre and Letiche assert that managers and policymakers simplify the complexity of everyday life in their reorganization proposals from higher levels. Smaling sketches what the role of qualitative research can be in studying complex phenomena. In the article it is explained how story research as a form of narrative research methodology can do justice to the complexity of stories from the field.Boje's 'antenarrative', 'antinarrative' and 'narrative' form the conceptual framework to search for diversity within and between told and transcribed stories from the field. A 'paragrammatic' (Gabriel) use of deconstructive tools may help to find the diversity.Boje's 'emplotment' and Holman Jones' 'civic dialogue' offer clues to present the diversity of everyday life in a way that does justice to the complexity of stories from the field. The form of a polylogue was chosen to represent the different stories from the field.

Bedankt voor deze uitgebreide replieken, waar jullie de vinger hebben gelegd op een aantal vermeldenswaardige aspecten van onze vergelijkende studie. Ze verdienen dan ook zeker onze aandacht.Allereerst willen we benadrukken dat het inhoudelijke aspect in deze studie op de voorgrond stond. In deze eerste fase van het project werden interviews en focusgroepen gecombineerd om tot een nagenoeg exhaustieve lijst van kwaliteitsindicatoren te komen. Een combinatie van technieken leek ons hier sterk aangewezen, gezien de factoren zowel in de breedte (aantal) als in de diepte (inhoudelijk) werden bevraagd. Desondanks leidde de vergelijking van beide methoden van informatieverzameling tot enkele interessante bevindingen, zoals de replieken duidelijk aantonen.Om de verschillen tussen beide methoden enigszins te kunnen objectiveren en patronen aan te duiden, werd een semi-kwantitatieve analyse gebruikt. Deze laatste werd gekozen omwille van de techniciteit van het onderwerp, waardoor een verdere en gedetailleerde inhoudelijke analyse van de indicatoren ons minder aangewezen leek.Om af te sluiten willen we graag nog eens het exploratieve karakter van deze studie benadrukken en het feit dat een alfaversie van deze tool uitgebreider getest zal worden in de doelpopulatie. We hopen met onze vergelijkende studie een bijdrage geleverd te hebben aan het inzicht in de verschillende methoden van informatieverzameling. Mogelijk kan de hier gevoerde discussie inspiratie geven aan andere onderzoekers en hen bijstaan in de soms moeilijke keuze tussen een interview en een focusgroep.