Why Qualitative Research about Media Activism Could be Hard?

This article discusses the challenges the researcher often encounter when they conduct qualitative research. The data were collected through in-depth interviews with a sample of researchers who did their qualitative research about media activism in Egypt between 2008 and 2018. In this context, media...

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Autor: Atef, Noha
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/13899
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/13899
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:070.11
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659.1
Media
Activism
Egypt
Qualitative Research
Interviews
Observation
Medios de comunicación
Activismo
Egipto
Investigación cualitativa
Entrevistas
Observación
Etica periodística
Periodismo
Publicidad
5506.11 Historia del Periodismo
6114.01 Publicidad
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Resumo:This article discusses the challenges the researcher often encounter when they conduct qualitative research. The data were collected through in-depth interviews with a sample of researchers who did their qualitative research about media activism in Egypt between 2008 and 2018. In this context, media activism is a broad term to include new media, digital media and community media. Egypt was selected for this article as the case of the global south, where the research field is politically unstable, and the results may apply other countries of the global south. The article concludes that there are three main variables to determine the difficulty of completing a qualitative research; the identity of the researcher or the research team; the time of carrying out the research and the connections between the researcher and participants.