KWALON - Volume 27, Issue 1, 2022

Abstract Truth and interpretation in ethnography (part 2): Discrepancies with marginalized groups and uniformed professions This essay is the second part of my contribution to an ongoing discussion in KWALON on evidence and truth in ethnography. I stress that ethnography is inferential and involves interpretation work, and in this part specifically I shift the attention from the problems of truth about the field to those in it. Read More

Abstract The microanalysis of online and mediated interaction: ‘digital conversation analysis’ The immense increase of digital communication in all spheres of human life has led to a need for qualitative research approaches to study this development. This article sets out the contours of a qualitative micro-analytical approach to online and digitally mediated communication called ‘digital conversation analysis’. It describes it Read More

Abstract A small movement, a large voice: The power of a visual research method User involvement in health care research is based on the notion of the human being as an autonomous and speaking subject with a voice. However, not everybody is able to express their experiences in words. In our arts-based participatory health research project on attuning care for people with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) we developed a visual r Read More