The Virtual in Qualitative Research

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

The purpose of this interactive symposium is to recreate a conference session in which knowledge is virtual, fluid, and implicated in the emergency of new potentials. It is our intention to blend conversations about qualitative research, cognitive experiences of session participants, bodily and social knowing in the form of social media, Tweeting, and available textual and material artifacts located around the presentation space. We will experiment with v/irtual symposium in which spontaneous connections are expected and ‘accident zones’ and connectibility create openings for different ways of knowing, movements, and change. Five presenters will discuss knowledge, learning, community building, and v/irtual in the context of qualitative research methodology. Presenters will alter and modify their presentations based on participants’ ongoing and immediate feedback as provided by Tweets, remarks, notes, movement, and actions. All participants will serve as our discussants.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Mirka E. Koro-Ljungberg, University of Florida

Papers

• Virtual methodology and connectibility in qualitative research - Mirka E. Koro-Ljungberg, University of Florida; Ela Kaye Eley, University of Florida

• Power Relations During Online Research: Ethnography as Feminist Methodology - Ronald Edward Hallett, University of the Pacific; Kristen Barber, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale

• Public Displays of Qualitative Enterprise: The Networked Researcher - Prisca Rodriguez, University of Florida

Discussant

• Kara M. Dawson, University of Florida