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I am currently sifting through a large amount of data including interview transcripts and photo-documentation of elementary student artwork and writing. As of right now, the coding system I‘ve developed doesn’t unite the image and text data sources, instead I find that most images are coded with one set of codes, and text is coded with another. The images are all photos of student journals which include writing and drawing. Some examples of codes I’ve used on many images are : “representational demonstration of comprehension” or “4 sectioned layout demonstrating comprehension”. These codes do not apply to any of the transcribed interviews. When I look at the data as a whole, I find that the images and text are separated by the codes rather than informing each other. I’d love any information or article/book suggestions about how to develop a coding system that creates a dialogue between image and text, so that the two inform the other. Or perhaps I’m wrong in thinking that the coding is where this interaction will occur? If that is the case, what suggestions do you have to look at and interpret two different types of data both describing the same event?
Hollie Putnam Are the interviews about the artwork? If not you need to find a connection. Coding does not make something more true, it just makes a lot of data look more similar in a way. In hermeneutic thinking we could say that «look for a larger whole that unites the data». Both basic hermeutic strategies and grounded theory, like it is presented by for example by Kathy Charmaz, might have useable solutions.
I agree with Dr. Kversoy. One way you could connect the two is to develop themes in your content analysis, using themes to connect coded images and text that communicate similar information or ideas. So basically, if you have an image that illustrates a certain idea, and text that communicates a similar idea, then you could include both under a theme that portrays this idea. I hope this helps.
Following the above, here is a link that describes content analysis:
https://www.terry.uga.edu/management/contentanalysis/research/
I hope it helps.
To my understanding, coding enables you to have specific themes generated from your own notes that elaborate your understanding of the interview transcript. If that is so, you need to study the pictures and see what themes they suggest. Mind you, coding may not give accurate themes. In qualitative research, you may need to go back to transcripts more and more again to generate more theme.
Similarly, I totally agree with what colleagues have said up👆.
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