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Access Grid Nodes in Field Research

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  • Nigel Fielding
  • Maria Macintyre

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This article reports fieldwork with an Access Grid Node (‘AGN’) device, analogous to video teleconferencing but based on grid computational technology. The device enables research respondents to be interviewed at remote sites, with potential savings in travelling to conduct fieldwork. Practical, methodological and analytic aspects of the experimental fieldwork are reported. Findings include some distinctive features of AGN interviews relative to co-present interviews; overall, there were some benefits and some disadvantages to communication. The article concludes that this new research interview mode shows potential, particularly once the difficulties associated with a new research technology are resolved.

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  • Nigel Fielding & Maria Macintyre, 2006. "Access Grid Nodes in Field Research," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 11(2), pages 13-24, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:11:y:2006:i:2:p:13-24
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.1385
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    1. Susan M. Hodgson & Tom Clark, 2007. "Sociological Engagements with Computing: The Advent of E-Science and Some Implications for the Qualitative Research Community," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 12(3), pages 61-72, May.

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