Networked Participants, Networked Meanings: Using Networks to Visualize Ethnographic Data

Researchers can use data visualization techniques to explore, analyze, and present in new ways. Although quantitative are visualized most often, recent innovations have brought attention the potential benefits of visualizing qualitative data. In this article, authors demonstrate one way researchers networks analyze ethnographic interview The suggest that because many respondents know another research, a useful tool for analyzing implications respondents’ familiarity with another. Moreover, often share familiar cultural references be visualized. show how ties conjunction their shared sheds light on different systems meaning within field site make sense social phenomena under investigation.