Kimberly Hirsh

Kimberly Hirsh is a researcher and consultant. Her primary research interests act as a bridge between fan studies and library and information science.

📍 Durham, NC, USA

ethnography

Writing the New Ethnography (Goodall 2000, Review)

In his book, Writing the New Ethnography (2000), H. L. Goodall Jr. offers an alternative way of writing qualitative research: writing “creative narratives shaped out of a writer’s personal experiences within a culture

analysis

A priori coding is A-OK!

There are many different ways of coding qualitative data. Two of the most frequently mentioned are in vivo coding, in which participants’ actual words become codes while the researcher is coding, and a priori coding, in which the researcher has defined codes before beginning to analyze the data.