Affective routes in interviews: Participants exploring a digital map as a live elicitation method

IF 3.2 1区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Qualitative Research Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI:10.1177/14687941241245961

Ash Watson, Emma Kirby

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Abstract

How we elicit rich reflections from people about their feelings and experiences is a central consideration of qualitative research. Creative techniques of elicitation can open reflective dialogic spaces between participants and researchers, bridging memory and meaning. In this article we discuss participant-led explorations of a digital story-mapping platform as an elicitation technique in qualitative interviews. This platform is Queering the Map, a community-generated counter-mapping project that digitally archives queer moments in place. An atemporal cartographic representation of queer life, visitors to the site zoom, drag and click to reveal the anonymous contributions of others: micro-stories of experience, poems, messages and yearnings, claiming a global landscape of queer feeling. Here we offer reflections from our experience of asking participants to explore and guide us around the map within an interview. We chart how this method of live digital discovery was generative of elicitation and evocation, of insights on affective roots (where have I come from?) and affective routes (where can I take you?). This article contributes to scholarship on elicitation and live methods, including digital and spatial approaches, and to conceptualisations of orientation and mapping.

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访谈中的情感路线：参与者探索将数字地图作为一种现场激发方法

如何激发人们对其感受和经历的丰富思考，是定性研究的核心问题。创造性的诱导技术可以在参与者和研究人员之间开启反思性的对话空间，在记忆和意义之间架起桥梁。在本文中，我们将讨论由参与者主导的对数字故事地图平台的探索，并将其作为定性访谈中的一种诱导技术。这个平台就是 "同性恋地图"（Queering the Map），它是一个由社区生成的反地图项目，以数字化的方式将同性恋的瞬间记录下来。网站的访问者可以通过缩放、拖拽和点击来显示其他人匿名提供的信息：微小的经历故事、诗歌、信息和渴望，从而展现出同性恋情感的全球景观。在此，我们将根据我们的经验进行反思，即让参与者在访谈中围绕地图进行探索和引导。我们描绘了这种实时数字发现方法是如何激发和唤起人们对情感根源（我从哪里来？）和情感路线（我能带你去哪里？）这篇文章有助于激发和现场方法的学术研究，包括数字和空间方法，以及定向和绘图的概念化。

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Qualitative Research Multiple-

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8.10

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： Qualitative Research is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles on the methodological diversity and multi-disciplinary focus of qualitative research within the social sciences. Research based on qualitative methods, and methodological commentary on such research, have expanded exponentially in the past decades. This is the case across a number of disciplines including sociology, social anthropology, health and nursing, education, cultural studies, human geography, social and discursive psychology, and discourse studies.