2nd International Symposium on Qualitative Research

A) Fundamentals

• Rationale and Paradigms of Qualitative Research (theoretical studies, critical reflection about epistemological dimensions, ontological and axiological)

• Systematization of approaches with Qualitative Studies (literature review, integrating results, aggregation studies, meta -analysis, meta- analysis of qualitative meta- synthesis, meta- ethnography)

• Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research (emphasis in research processes that build on mixed methodologies but with priority to qualitative approaches)

B) Operationalizing

• Data Analysis Types (content analysis , discourse analysis , thematic analysis , narrative analysis , etc.)

• Innovative processes of Qualitative Data Analysis (design analysis, articulation and triangulation of different sources of data – images, audio, video)

• Qualitative Research in Web Context ( eResearch, virtual ethnography, interaction analysis , latent corpus on the internet, etc.)

• Qualitative Analysis with Support of Specific Software (usability studies, user experience, the impact of software on the quality of research and analysis)