Remix Methods: Searching for Resonance (Part I)

As part of an ongoing project, this is my own remix, which means it will morph over time into something that has a different sort of coherence than you see here. I’ve been musing over three recent events that compelled me to start writing about ‘fabrication’ as a valuable and ethical tool within qualitative research. This essay is more about the conditions within which we are constrained as qualitative researchers, so while it’s on the way to making the case for bringing ‘fabrication’ to the scientific table, I don’t talk about it directly here. I caused a small firestorm when I mentioned in a conference presentation on ethics that I fabricated a dialogue in some early research on internet users. Simultaneous responses included,...

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