While some qualitative methods texts touch upon online communities as a potential data source, show how to conduct interviews and focus groups online, or select recording devices and analysis software, no book to date has guided readers in the creation of a comprehensive digital workflow for their research. By working through each chapter in this book, readers will be able to generate a unique digital workflow for designing and implementing their research.

While some qualitative methods texts touch upon online communities as a potential data source, show how to conduct interviews and focus groups online, or select recording devices and analysis software, no book to date has guided readers in the creation of a comprehensive digital workflow for their research. By working through each chapter in this book, readers will be able to generate a unique digital workflow for designing and implementing their research. The book provides a deep exploration of the relationship between theories of technology, substantive theories, and methodological theory, and shows how together these inform the development of a quality research design. The authors includevignettes—narratives written by qualitative researchers describing cutting-edge use of digital tools and spaces—and also give examples of published studies, which together provide practical illustration of the content. Woven throughout is explicit attention to ethical challenges that are likely to be faced by researchers when adopting digital tools. The book invites readers to engage in a critical appraisal of the role of technology in qualitative research through reflection, conversation, and engagement with the larger community of researchers.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World
Chapter 2: Qualitative Research Design in a Digital World
Chapter 3: Integrating Qualitative Data Analysis Software Across the Research Process
Chapter 4: Creating a Paperless Literature Review Process
Chapter 5: Generating Data from Pre-Existing (Digital) Spaces
Chapter 6: Generating Data with Researcher-Use Of (Digital) Tools
Chapter 7: Transcribing Innovations
Chapter 8: Managing and Analyzing Data
Chapter 9: Writing and Representing Findings to Become Public Scholars
Chapter 10: Concluding Thoughts on Doing Qualitative Research in a Chaotic World