Using ATLAS.ti for a Discourse Analysis Study of Blogging in an Educational Context

Trena M. Paulus; Jessica Lester

doi:10.14279/depositonce-4839

Using ATLAS.ti for a Discourse Analysis Study of Blogging in an Educational Context

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Abstract

While some scholars have claimed that data analysis software tools are not useful for discourse analysis work (Macmillan, 2005), in this presentation we report on our use of ATLAS.ti for conducting a discourse analysis of blog posts and comments made in the context of an undergraduate nutrition course (Lester & Paulus, 2011; Paulus & Lester, 2013). We describe several aspects of our analysis, including: managing the data through document families and quotations, collaborating as a team, engaging in “unmotivated looking” through memos, maintaining a focus on discursive actions through hyperlinking and network views, and narrowing the analytic focus through codes and queries. While we found ATLAS.ti to be extremely useful for documenting our analytic decisions in a transparent and systematic way, we also call for features that would allow the analysis of online interactional data in a more seamless way.

Original language	American English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-4839
State	Published - Jun 19 2014
Event	ATLAS.ti User Conference 2013: Fostering Dialog on Qualitative Methods - Berlin, Germany Duration: Jun 19 2014 → …

Conference

Conference	ATLAS.ti User Conference 2013: Fostering Dialog on Qualitative Methods
Period	6/19/14 → …

Keywords

ATLAS
blogging
discourse analysis study
educational context

Disciplines

Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

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