Chapter 1: What is Qualitative Research?

For a helpful, short introduction to these three terms by CrashCourse, visit:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wrCpLJ1XAw

For a brief introduction to these two terms by Débora Póvoa, visit:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0-Xu5_627E

For a discussion of Twenge’s book based on US data (Twenge, 2017), go to:

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198

For the Ting et al. (2015) paper using Australian data, go to:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1440783315579527

For an excellent recent study of the advantages and limits of big data by William Scarborough (2018), visit:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023118780760

Big data are sometimes used in qualitative research. For an example of a qualitative study analysing reports on Trip Advisor go to:

www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JPMD-12-2017-0127/full/html

An extended discussion of Sheard’s paper and a constructionist critique appears in Silverman (2013b). To read my paper online go to:

www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/volume25.php