Confronted with an overwhelming amount of data? Thematic Analysis provides a remedy. Qualitative data analysis may look very intimidating for novice researchers at the first glance; a notebook full of field notes, hours of conversations ...
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How to write a Thesis with MAXQDA in 6 Steps
Disclaimer: This blog post should not be seen as a methodological guide but as a first-hand experience from a student of European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology who has worked with MAXQDA. Are your bachelors or master's thesis coming up or are you loo...
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Thematic Content Analysis with MAXQDA: Analyzing a “New Worker” of the Soviet Food Industry in the 1930’s Printed Media
Abstract This article provides an overview of my research on the printed media of the Soviet food industry. My research compares a “new worker” propaganda image constructed in the main newspaper of the sector and the newspapers published by confectionery...
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Multimedia research on medieval physical culture with MAXQDA
Over the past decade, history has embraced the so-called material turn in methodology (Clever & Ruberg, 2014). This led to an increased interest in past embodied practices and humans’ tinkering with all things material. One of the off-shoots of this i...
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How do companies see the circular economy to achieve sustainability?
Circular economy is a current theory that tries to bring together economic practices to achieve sustainability. This approach seeks to increase the productivity of resources within an ecosystem, creating more opportunities to create value for the consumer...
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Understanding Social Determinants of Health: Coding WHO policy papers for central themes
We often think of health in medical terms, but it is also politically and socially determined. Health relates to education, housing, employment, neighbourhoods, access to care, and much more. Social determinants of health are important, but aren’t always ...
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MAXQDA Photo Contest Winners 2021 and Honorable Mentions
Photography implies that we know about the world if we accept it as the camera records it. But this is the opposite of understanding, which starts from not accepting the world as it looks. All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say n...
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Territorial Intelligence in the Meandro del Say Wetland – Colombia: coding categories with MAXQDA
Eared owl (Asio clamator) in the Meandro del Say- Photograph Camilo Castañeda 2020 Environmental studies together with other disciplines such as social, political, legal, and cultural studies have made a change in the construction of new opportunities fo...
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Reinforcing the Afghan Diaspora in the Digital Age
This article is a brief summary of the full research paper published at https://marieolivie.com/afghan-diaspora-in-the-digital-age/. The Digital Age has offered various possibilities for how we can enhance our daily lives with digital technologies. Even ...
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Autocoding: An overview of MAXQDA’s autocoding functions and research contexts
This week's blog is all about autocoding. Autocoding means that MAXQDA creates one (or more codes) and automatically assigns ALL text passages (that fit) to these codes. For example, these codes can originate from keywords, hashtags, speakers and so on. ...
