The Internet as a medium 
for qualitative research

Patsy Clarke (University of Natal, Durban)
Pretoria, 11 February 2000

These materials are based on research commissioned by the South Africa National Research Foundation. The presentation on the 11th of February was made as part of the Yenza! Internet Train-the-Trainer programme presented for Vista University staff by the NRF.

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The Internet as a medium for qualitative research

Outline of presentation

Objectives

Collection methods

Topic guide

Qualitative research

Methods

Data

Internet 1998

Internet 2000

Internet- other aspects

Internet services

World Wide Web

Internet services

Internet services

Bandwidth

Email

Email list servers

Newsgroups

Lists and Newsgroups

MUDs, MOOs and Chat

Web-based

Other Internet services

Matrix of CMC and research activities Q

CMC vs. f2f*

CMC vs. f2f

CMC vs. f2f

CMC vs. f2f

Comparison outcomes?

Ethical considerations

Confidentiality

Private vs. Public?

Informed consent

Access : Numbers

Access: Demographics

Economics

Research process

Sampling and recruitment

Group process

Ethics

Examples

Breast cancer on-line

Focus groups

Case Study

Impact on research

 

Author: Patsy Clarke

Email: CLARKE@nu.ac.za

Patsy Clarke's Home Page: http://www.und.ac.za/users/clarke/index.html

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