Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes

Download or read book Working with Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes written by Rosalind Edwards and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks the important question; Can the by-products of research activity be treated as data and of research interest in themselves? This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume considers the analytic value of a range of ‘by-products’ of social research and reading. These include electronically captured paradata on survey administration, notes written in the margins of research documents and literary texts, and fieldnotes and ephemera produced by social researchers. Revealing the relational nature of paradata, marginalia and fieldnotes, contributions examine how the craft of studying and analysing these by-products offers insight into the intellectual, social and ethical processes underpinning the activities of research and reading.