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Chapter 1 - Introduction

The Need for Qualitative Research in the Age of Digitalization

from Part I - Philosophical, Epistemological and Theoretical Considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2023

By
Robert D. Galliers  and
Boyka Simeonova
Edited by
Boyka Simeonova  and
Robert D. Galliers
Boyka Simeonova
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
Robert D. Galliers
Affiliation:
Bentley University, Massachusetts and Warwick Business School
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Summary

The introduction chapter outlines the need for qualitative research in the age of digitalization. The chapter outlines the opportunities and challenges which digital technologies and digitalization provide and enable. The chapter explicates the need to understand the different aspects of digitalization, the opportunities, issues, challenges and implications at different levels (individual, work, organizational, societal) and outlines the need of qualitative research to understand these phenomena. The chapter discusses the methodological opportunities and challenges for digital qualitative research enabled through digitalization.

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qualitative researchdigitalizationdigital qualitative researchtheorizationqualitative methodsdigital research agenda
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Cambridge Handbook of Qualitative Digital Research , pp. 3 - 14
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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