I suggest porphyry/ Cassandre ( http://cassandre-qda.sourceforge.net/about.en.html ) It is an opne source/free software that allows you to analysemultiformat corpus on either an individual or a collaborative way. To summarize the idea: Cassandre helps the researchers to build analytical frameworks consistent with their hypotheses. With such a companion, the researchers chooses, in the material, keywords or idioms as accurate candidate surrogates for investigated phenomena. The software finds all excerpts that belong these keywords/idioms, so that all exerpts related to a phenomenon can be compared. Comparisons help to refine the hypotheses or raise new questions. And so on, the interactive analysis goes on... It is an interative process. You find words in the text that you define as indicators. Those indictors, you link them to braoder idea of concepts and then the tool scan the all corpus to highlight the conept in it. Example: 5-2 : I think to have to correct again, based on what I said earlier. I have said that in the past, anyone could publish anything and you had just to rely on the one who published it. Now, there is the social control, coming from feedback, so it is easier to assess. Here you can define the words anyone and anything as indicators of a broader trend, let's say "technology fo all". Cassandre will give you analytical framework that shows you all the use of these word in the corpus that rely on this trend. By exploring again the text, you find experts such as: 2-4: Professionalism. The journalist is a professional who act in a certain way, in a certain process. And anyone can set up a blog and they don't necessarily go about a certain process or a certain way of acting. Following this you may understand add the idea of amateurism to your analytical framework... and so on... It GREAT !! I hope this help... Jeremy 2009/4/21 Mark Warschauer <markw@uci.edu>
Anybody here use WEFT QDA or any other qualitative data analysis software for linux? Any thoughts or recommendations?
Thanks, Mark
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