This is an excellent paper raising and addressing the complexities that arise when considering open data guidelines in qualitative research. "Many researchers who use quantitative research approaches remain unaware of wider debates about open data within qualitative research," write the authors. Indeed, "definitions of what constitutes data (e.g., raw data, transcripts, codes, and reflections) and what form data-sharing should take, were not included in journal guidelines." Complexities arise from varying conceptions of the relation between data and the matter being studied, data collection methods, the methods of processing and interpretation of the data, and the sensitivity and rights over the data by the subjects themselves. For example, as Tuck and Yang suggest, "we come across stories, vignettes, moments, turns of phrase, pauses, that would humiliate participants to share, or are too sensationalist to publish." Image: Alexander, et al. Via Charles W. Bailey Jr.
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