Dear All,
I conduct research on Maker Network and collect qualitative data through semi-structured interviews with the lens of Actor-Network Theory. I would like to do mapping of actants, their relations, motivations and change of their becoming. I do not prefer to use surveys and gain statictical or quantiative data for the reason of the approach. Is there any suggestion of analysing and mapping tool, to reflect visual model of this network?
Thanks in advance,
Özgün
I recommend reading John Scott's Social Network Analysis and using UCINET. Scott's book is a seminal work for actor-network theory, so it would be a good place to begin. UCINET is easy to learn from the user manual and online forms for support.
Dear Özgün,
depends a bit on how you are working with your data and how you define or reconstruct „Actants“. Besides these crucial question, almost any current software for qda will come with a visualising tool. Maxqda is the one i‘m working with.
When working with qualitative data, i preffer to use Atlas ti. It has a very nice graphic tool on which you can make conceptual maps and others useful outlines.
Thanks for all. I will check the softwares for qda to visualize the model and see how ucinet works.
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