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‘Couldn't You Have Got a Computer Program to Do That for You?’ Reflections on the Impact that Machines Have on the Ways We Think About and Undertake Qualitative Research in the Socio‐Legal Community
Journal of Law and Society ( IF 1.431 ) Pub Date : 2020-02-25 , DOI: 10.1111/jols.12217
Linda Mulcahy 1, 2 , Sally Wheeler 2
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This article addresses the role that computer software programs play in the sort of textual analysis that has typically been the preserve of the qualitative researcher. Drawing on two distinct research projects conducted separately by the authors, it considers the transformation of social science software from a competent assistant that can help to sort and retrieve data, to an intelligent assistant capable of independently finding trends and counter‐arguments, to a co‐investigator capable of doing things that human researchers cannot. In addition to challenging some of the claims of ‘siliconistas’, this article considers the impact of new technology on the aesthetics of research and the professional identity of qualitative researchers. In doing so, it raises some important questions about how well we are training early‐career academics for the challenges that they are likely to face in the future world of socio‐legal empirical research.

中文翻译:

“难道你没有计算机程序可以帮你吗?” 关于机器对我们在社会法律社区中思考和进行定性研究的方式的影响的思考

本文介绍了计算机软件程序在通常是定性研究人员保留的文本分析中所扮演的角色。它利用作者分别进行的两个不同的研究项目,考虑了将社会科学软件从能帮助分类和检索数据的称职助手,转变为能够独立发现趋势和反论点的智能助手,再到协同工作的转变。研究人员有能力做人类研究人员无法做的事情。除了质疑“ siliconistas”的某些主张外,本文还考虑了新技术对研究美学和定性研究人员专业身份的影响。在这样做,
更新日期:2020-02-25
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