T. Spencer, Linnea L. Rademaker, Peter E. Williams, Cynthia Loubier
{"title":"Online, Asynchronous Data Collection in Qualitative Research","authors":"T. Spencer, Linnea L. Rademaker, Peter E. Williams, Cynthia Loubier","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.28","url":null,"abstract":"The authors discuss the use of online, asynchronous data collection in qualitative research. Online interviews can be a valuable way to increase access to marginalized participants, including those with time, distance, or privacy issues that prevent them from participating in face-to-face interviews. The resulting greater participant pool can increase the rigor and validity of research outcomes. The authors also address issues with conducting in-depth asynchronous interviews such as are needed in phenomenology. Advice from the field is provided for rigorous implementation of this data collection strategy. The authors include extensive excerpts from two studies using online, asynchronous data collection.","PeriodicalId":375427,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129340162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 21st-Century Academic Landscape","authors":"P. Leavy","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.40","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter details the confluence of changes in the academic and social landscapes that have culminated in the move toward transdisciplinarity. The author distinguishes between disciplinary, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches to knowledge building, explaining the premise of each approach. The author suggests each approach is useful and then reviews the particular strengths of transdisciplinarity for addressing contemporary problems and meeting our moral mandate to do work that is of use in the world. There is ample discussion of the changes that have led to transdisciplinarity, including the emergence of critical areas studies, mixed-methods research and pragmatism, globalization, technological shifts, public engagement in issues of import, and the complex and diffuse nature of contemporary problems. Specific tools, such as citizens’ juries, are noted.","PeriodicalId":375427,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121655922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Academic Blogs","authors":"J. Manning","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.30","url":null,"abstract":"Academic blogs are an increasingly popular form of social media that allow scholars to enact public engagement. This chapter examines academic blogs as scholarship, blogs about scholarship, and blogs as a tool to generate scholarship. After reviewing key terms and processes related to blogging, a brief history of blogging is provided. Then three types of blog environments are reviewed: personal, topic-driven, and filter blogs. Next, five metaphors for academic blogs are considered: blogs as education, information, relationship, engagement, and scholarship. These metaphors illustrate the breadth of blog functions, specifically their use for research innovation, mobility, connection, and reflexivity as well as for educational possibilities. Blogging as a form of scholarship is then explored in depth, especially the use of blogs for content analysis, multiadic discourse analysis, forms of diary research, and arts-based approaches. Finally, two key tensions regarding blogs as scholarship are explored: how the expedience of blog scholarship comes into conflict with concerns about credibility and how the accessible language and approaches to blog writing come into conflict with a blog entry’s enduring popularity or appeal.","PeriodicalId":375427,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128250198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing Collaboratively","authors":"JeffriAnne Wilder","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.14","url":null,"abstract":"Collaborative writing is defined as scholarship (intensive research and study on a particular topic that produces written work) that is conceptualized, designed, and/or written by more than one author. In the 20th century, rates of collaborative scholarship in academic journals grew at a steady pace in higher education, and currently, joint authorship is more normative than single authorship in a wide variety of academic disciplines, including the natural sciences, computing, psychology, social work, and library science. In the most practical terms, collaborative scholarship can provide opportunities for professional socialization, personal advancement, and career development. Partnering with others provides a team of authors with an avenue to generate new ideas, solve problems, and increase scholarly productivity. This chapter provides an overview of the collaborative writing process, exploring the features, benefits, and challenges of collaborative scholarship. Also included are strategies for pursuing and developing co-authored projects, and tips for successful collaboration.","PeriodicalId":375427,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128753595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health TheatRe","authors":"S. Cox, G. Belliveau","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.10","url":null,"abstract":"Research-based theater is increasingly valued as a means of enhancing understanding of lived experience in different groups and communities. This innovative use of theater is being applied within various disciplines, including health research. In this chapter, we explore the use of research-based theater in three health-related projects, each of which focuses on a different application of research-based theater. The first highlights the use of theater to disseminate research findings; the second looks at the use of theater in developing a therapeutic intervention; and the third is concerned with the use of theater as a means of engaging citizens in health policy development. We conclude the chapter by discussing two salient ethical and methodological issues arising from the use of research-based theater in these three projects: (1) artistic expertise or professionalism and (2) authorship and its attribution in collaborative, creative work.","PeriodicalId":375427,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129897273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"For the Sake of Humanity","authors":"Wendy L. Sternberg","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.24","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the conjoined artistic and scientific space with research on cross-cultural collaborative arts used for public health messaging. The author explores the complexities of the investigator’s role, methods, and outcome reliability and critically examines issues of context, language, subcultures, and agency to gain a fuller appreciation of inclusion and to frame it as a vital contributor to both public health analysis and transformation. Looking at not only funding paradigms, but also process and product as part of the research equation, the author advocates for a hybrid model of quantitative and qualitative evaluation and emphasizes the need to gather longer-term data to fully access and influence the public health landscape. The chapter closes with a set of provocative questions that invite readers to imagine and work together on a global scale to create sustainable public health solutions for the greater good of the entire human family.","PeriodicalId":375427,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123614399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public Ethnography","authors":"T. E. Adams, Robin M. Boylorn","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.26","url":null,"abstract":"In the past few decades, some ethnographers have approached going public with their ethnographic research. In particular, they began to investigate problems of significant interest, conduct fieldwork in everyday settings, and use both form and dissemination to engage nonacademic audiences. In this chapter, the authors discern characteristics of public ethnography and doing ethnography in public settings. They begin by defining “public ethnography” and illustrating the need to record happenings of contexts that cannot be easily captured with other research methods. They then discuss practices of always being in the field, observing others, taking notes, attending to everyday conversations, monitoring social media, synthesizing ideas, identifying injustices, and engaging extant research. They conclude by identifying considerations for crafting and disseminating representations of fieldwork for public, nonacademic audiences.","PeriodicalId":375427,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128752727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"#spacesforknowledgeproduction","authors":"Daniel T. Barney, L. Blair, J. C. Castro","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.39","url":null,"abstract":"The authors acknowledge the data-mining potential of Instagram as an enormous data stream for quantitative research studies, but in this chapter they describe how it can also serve as an inquiry space, or social studio, for data contributors. For example, Instagram is currently one of the most widely used social networking platforms in the world, but it has not been utilized as extensively as a data source by researchers in comparison to Facebook or Twitter, and there is little scholarship published on Instagram as a platform for creative and pedagogical inquiry. The authors of this chapter are art educators utilizing Instagram to further this particular inquiry possibility; that is, to investigate Instagram as a social practice, pedagogical platform, reconceptualized exhibition venue, and artistic mode.","PeriodicalId":375427,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship","volume":"23 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131991540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disaster Research","authors":"Mark R. Landahl, Deedee Bennett, B. Phillips","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.35","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides an overview of the history and development of research examining disaster events. The historical review includes discussion of the three core research traditions (disasters, hazards, and risk) and the more recent focus on public administration. A focus on research methods unique to disasters guides a review of the challenges of research in the four phases of disaster. The chapter also examines specific methodological challenges related to disaster field research, including sampling and data collection. The chapter concludes by reviewing issues in the transfer of research findings to emergency management practice and discusses the future of disaster research.","PeriodicalId":375427,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship","volume":"342 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122836625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interviews","authors":"S. Brinkmann","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.8","url":null,"abstract":"Qualitative interviews are normally conducted as personal conversations between two or more individuals. Such personal conversations, however, are frequently used in the service of public scholarship, which gives rise to a number of significant issues having to do with researching private lives and placing accounts in the public arena. This chapter addresses the role of qualitative interviewing in public scholarship. It first discusses the very idea of the public, especially as it was articulated by the American pragmatist John Dewey. It is argued that the social sciences, and qualitative interviewing specifically, have a central role to play in the constitution of a public in modern society. The reader is then taken through various stages of interview research and some examples are given that show how qualitative interview studies have significantly advanced public scholarship.","PeriodicalId":375427,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship","volume":"329 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122740830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}