Hughes, K. orcid.org/0000-0002-5711-0353, Hughes, J. and Tarrant, A. (2020) Re-approaching interview data through qualitative secondary analysis: interviews with internet gamblers. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23 (5). pp. 565-579. ISSN 1364-5579
Abstract
This paper addresses two interrelated questions concerning what interview data are and how researchers might use them. The first considers the value of a shift from a predominant or exclusive focus upon how data are constructed and produced at interview, and towards how such data might be apprehended through different forms of engagement. The second question relates to how and what qualitative secondary analysis (QSA) might be used to tell about the social world. In exploring this, we advance a critique of the divide between primary and secondary analysis, recasting the debate in terms of different degrees and qualities of ‘proximity’ and ‘distance’ from the formative contexts of data generation, and the distinctive analytical affordances that relate to these. Using QSA of interview data from a study of problem internet gambling as an empirical crucible, we consider the kinds of participation that interviewees develop through reciprocal engagement with interviewers. We illustrate how participants reflexively negotiate the affordances and limits to the narratives through which they frame and recount their experiences. Finally, we show how interview data can be used both to speak of the temporal, relational, spatial, epistemic contexts of their production, and also to contexts and questions beyond these.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of an article published in International Journal of Social Research Methodology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | epistemology; ethnographic principles; problem internet gambling; qualitative interviews; qualitative secondary analysis; temporality |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Nov 2024 11:05 |
Last Modified: | 11 Nov 2024 11:05 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13645579.2020.1766759 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:219392 |