One of our most exciting events coming up at ICQI is the Digital Tools Wikihack. We hope to see you there!

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ICQI Digital Tools Wikihack

Join us in updating the Wikipedia entries related to qualitative research: A Hands-on Experience. You are invited to learn more about Wikipedia and how you, as a qualitative researcher, could participate in the generation, editing, and critique of the information available to the larger world about qualitative inquiry.

Event information

• Date: Friday, May 19, 2017
• Time: 11am-12:20pm
• Location: University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Architecture Building, Rooms 205 (2nd floor), 608 E. Lorado Taft Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 / More accessibility information about building can be found here
• Cost: Free, but please register (below)
• Host: Ricker Library
• Please bring a laptop and power cord with you

What to expect

We will provide tutorials for Wikipedia newcomers and an overview of the resource. Bring your laptop, power cord, and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. Stop by for a little bit or stay for the whole afternoon. No Wikipedia editing experience necessary!

If you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia, you might try this training module which will help explain a lot of things, including how to add your signature (by the way, signatures are created by saving four tildes [~] in a row).

The final program is out, and you can find all of our Digital Tools SIG sessions!

Here are some important SIG events – hope to see you there!

Thursday, May 18

• 7:30pm: Digital Tools for Qualitative Research social!
  • Joe’s Brewery, 706 5^th Street (a 10-minute walk from the Illini Union)
  • The first drink is on us (while supplies last!), thanks to our generous sponsors: Atlas.ti, Dedoose, MAXQDA (Verbi), NVivo (QSR), QDAMiner (Provalis), Qualitative Data Repository, Queri, Quirkos, and Transana.

Friday, May 19

• 11am – 12:20pm: Digital Tools for Qualitative Research Plenary
  • Join us in updating the Wikipedia entries related to qualitative research: A Hands-on Experience.  You are invited to learn more about Wikipedia and how you, as a qualitative researcher, could participate in the generation, editing, and critique of the information available to the larger world about qualitative inquiry.
    • 205 Architecture (a room just across the hall from the Ricker Library of Architecture and Art).
    • We strongly urge all who are coming to the Wikihack to bring their own computers, if possible.

Saturday, May 20

• 11am -12:20pm: Digital Tools for Qualitative Research SIG meeting: We will elect officers, review our budget, collect feedback and plan for next year.
  • There will be time in the agenda for brief announcements and a table for the distribution of materials for attendees (feel free to bring announcements and/or handouts)

We were quite excited to see this call for papers:

We are seeking to propose a special issue for the International Journal of Social Research Methodology (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/13645579.html )- an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to exploring methodological developments in international contexts. The proposed special issue Digital qualitative methods in social research seeks to explore how qualitative research is being undertaken in, on and with the digital.

Whilst there has been a growing awareness and literature of the ethical parameters around doing research online (c.f. (Eysenbach & Till, 2001; Rodham & Gavin, 2006) and of the means for conducting particular types of online work, such as ‘netnography’ (Kozinets, 2002; Langer & Beckman, 2005) or online surveys (Sue & Ritter, 2011; Evans & Mathur, 2005) qualitative digital methods as a whole remains an area which is expanding, growing and evolving alongside the technologies and platforms with which it engages. Those engaging in digital work are often navigating new paths, utilising reflexive practice to understand the intersection of qualitative work and digital settings and it is these experiences and practices that this proposed special issue seeks to explore.

We are then seeking submissions for this proposed special issue, which if successful would be guest edited by Dr Chris Till and Dr Esmée Hanna (Leeds Beckett University). We are seeking abstracts of no more than 200 words outlining the premise of the paper and key arguments, including the main qualitative digital approach or perspective the paper will engage with. Papers will be selected based on originality, contribution to understanding of qualitative digital methods and international relevance. Papers from all career stages are welcome, and the process will be as supportive as possible to facilitate the involvement of PhD students and ECR. Abstracts will form part of the proposal to be sent to the journal editors and will be published if the special issue is selected.

Topics of papers may include, but are not limited to:

• Theoretical engagements with ontological and/epistemological bases of particular digital methods/methodologies
• Critical and evaluative syntheses of existing qualitative digital methodological approaches
• A demonstration of, and critical engagement of with, an innovative digital method
• Reflections on ethical issues in the use of particular digital methods

Please send your abstract and contact details to both C.Till@leedsbeckett.ac.uk and E.S.Hanna@leedsbeckett.ac.uk by the 31^st May 2017. If you have any questions please contact us at the email addresses above.