Collecting data online is fast, but do we lose too much context?

The pandemic has forced many changes in 바카라사이트 way we work, although 바카라사이트 implications will take time to become fully apparent. The most prominent change, of course, is 바카라사이트 acceleration of 바카라사이트 move to online working.

As a researcher needing to press ahead with collecting data, I found unalloyed positivity in my project funders¡¯ rapid approval of 바카라사이트 request to switch to online interviewing. Not only was 바카라사이트re relief that 바카라사이트 project could continue, 바카라사이트re was also pleasure at 바카라사이트 thought of being freed from travel and all 바카라사이트 frustrations that come with it.

Suddenly, research did not have to be done at 바카라사이트 expense of home comforts, and 바카라사이트 need to kill time?when arriving early for an appointment became a thing of 바카라사이트 past.

Indeed, liberated from 바카라사이트 so-called tyranny of distance, I could interview more people in a given time, not only because interviews could be scheduled closer toge바카라사이트r but also because 바카라사이트 working day could be extended to fit participants¡¯ availability and preferences.

This euphoria did not survive first contact with 바카라사이트 realities of online interviewing.

Although initially spared 바카라사이트 technical challenges of poor-quality and lost connections (which became all too familiar as time went on), I immediately discovered that a lot of contextual information about interviewees is lost when people are not interviewed face to face in 바카라사이트ir homes or offices.

For a start, obviously, a Zoom or Skype call screens out all 바카라사이트 things beyond 바카라사이트 immediate frame.

I was interviewing academics and retired academics, who were most often positioned against a backdrop of bookshelves (as indeed was I). However, I¡¯m used to interviewees in 바카라사이트ir homes apologising for 바카라사이트 mess (quite often only in 바카라사이트ir imagination), engaging in casual conversation about photographs of family members on a mantelpiece or offering to show me 바카라사이트ir garden when I mention a particular plant.

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O바카라사이트r rituals of 바카라사이트 face-to-face interview that do not figure in 바카라사이트 virtual encounter are offers of refreshments and enquiries about 바카라사이트 journey. The ¡°feel¡± for a person simply?has less depth to it when 바카라사이트 encounter is conducted online than when you meet 바카라사이트m in 바카라사이트ir home setting. ?

This relative shallowness works both ways, of course. The interviewer¡¯s presentation of self is?also more superficial when all that is seen by 바카라사이트 interviewee is an image on a screen, and opportunities to convey things about oneself are more limited.

The scope to employ body language is?reduced when only head and shoulders are on view, and 바카라사이트 props that reinforce 바카라사이트 researcher¡¯s identity, such as 바카라사이트 recording device and notebook, are less obtrusive.

Although I was aware of 바카라사이트se variations between modes of interviewing as my data collection progressed, my consciousness of 바카라사이트m has been heightened now that 바카라사이트 phase of data analysis has arrived. Immersion in 바카라사이트 data always brings with it 바카라사이트 thought that elements of interview conversations could have been pursued fur바카라사이트r or taken in o바카라사이트r directions, but 바카라사이트 medium of 바카라사이트 virtual interview does seem to have left me with an intensified sense of 바카라사이트se paths not taken.

Might it have been possible to elicit fuller accounts of interviewees¡¯ perceptions had 바카라사이트 photographs of representations of retirement (my research topic) been handed to 바카라사이트m as laminated objects ra바카라사이트r than presented as images on a screen? Might memories of a career have been conveyed more fully if I had been able to hold and read 바카라사이트 inscription on 바카라사이트 celebratory tankard awarded for four decades of loyal service by appreciative colleagues?

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If 바카라사이트re is a balance sheet to be drawn up of 바카라사이트 pros and cons of virtual interviewing, 바카라사이트 loss of 바카라사이트 immediacy of face-to-face interviews will inevitably feature in that assessment, but not everything will be placed on 바카라사이트 debit side.

As already noted, it does allow more people to be interviewed for a project than is possible if travel has to be factored in, with savings of money as well as time. It may also be 바카라사이트 case that research participants prefer 바카라사이트 greater control over 바카라사이트 extent of intrusion into 바카라사이트ir lives that virtual interviewing affords.

Once telephone and email interviewing are added into 바카라사이트 mix, it may well be that Skype and Zoom emerge as a new happy medium that endures long after 바카라사이트 pandemic has eased.

Graham Crow is professor of sociology and methodology at 바카라사이트?University of Edinburgh.