For this weeks theme I didn't do much additional reading apart from the article about case studies and the two articles that I chose. I read up on a couple of methods that was in one of my articles. I guess I felt like this theme really built upon all of the previous themes and that the article on case studies was otherwise sufficient. It was nice to have a theme at the end of the course that tied all of the concepts of earlier themes together. I think that I have a clear understanding of what a case study means and how it should be implemented because of my previous understanding of the other themes about theory and method. It really tied together nicely.
The case study article that I chose made me a bit unsure of the boundaries between a study with extensive qualitative methods and a case study. I guess it kind of balances between them because of the fact that so much of the environment which they studied was constructed by the researchers. The approach did seem beneficial for them though and was good as a first study to be followed up by a study that results in a bit more theory.
It was interesting for me to choose an article that had methods I didn't quite know about which I did for the qualitative methods part of this theme. Understanding more about different methods is interesting and learning about discourse analysis and ethnography was helpful to grasp how case studies work. The thing that seems to me like the hardest part of a case study is how to choose which data to gather and how to process it afterwards. Understanding two additional methods made it easier to understand how more types of data can be gathered and analyzed.
Hello Andreas! Good post! You write: "The thing that seems to me like the hardest part of a case study is how to choose which data to gather and how to process it afterwards. " And i agree, i also sometimes think researchers might be biased in how they choose what information they use. Have you thought about this?
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