Some Philosophical Considerations in Using Mixed Methods in Library and Information Science Research

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1859-1867

  Ma, Lai ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

contextual information; epistemology; research methods

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; EPISTEMOLOGY; INFORMATION-RELATED PHENOMENA; LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; MIXED METHOD; MIXED-METHODS RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS; SOCIAL RESEARCH; VALIDITY CLAIMS;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84865276649     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22711     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Benoit, G., (2002). Toward a critical theoretic perspective in information systems. The Library Quarterly, 72 (4), 441-471. (Pubitemid 37001895)
2. Bernstein, R.J., (1983). Beyond objectivism and relativism: Science, hermeneutics, and praxis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
3. Best, J., (2008). Stat-Spotting: A field guide to identifying dubious data. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
4. Blair, D.C., (2003). Information retrieval and the philosophy of language. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 37, 3-50. (Pubitemid 36116219)
5. Bryman, A., (2007). Barriers to integrating quantitative and qualitative research. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 1 (1), 8-22.
6. Budd, J.M., (2006). Discourse analysis and the study of communication in LIS. Library Trends, 55 (1), 65-82. (Pubitemid 44874700)
7. Carspecken, P.F., (1996). Critical ethnography in education research: A theoretical and practical guide. New York: Routledge.
8. Carspecken, P.F., (1999). Four scenes for posing the question of meaning and other essays in critical philosophy and critical methodology. New York: Peter Lang.
9. Connaway, L.S., &, Powell, R.R., (2010). Basic research methods for librarians. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.
10. Creswell, J.W., &, Plano Clark, V.L., (2007). Designing and conducting mixed methods research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
11. Daston, L., &, Galison, P., (1992). The image of objectivity. Representations, 40, 81-128.
12. Edwards, P.N., (2010). A vast machine: Computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
13. Edwards, P.N., Mayernik, M.S., Batcheller, A.L., Bowker, G.C., &, Borgman, C.L., (2011). Science friction: Data, metadata, and collaboration. Social Studies of Science, 41 (5), 667-690.
14. Fidel, R., (1993). Qualitative methods in information retrieval research. Library and Information Science Research, 15, 219-247.
15. Fidel, R., (2008). Are we there yet? Mixed methods research in library and information science. Library & Information Science Research, 30, 265-272.
16. Frohmann, B., (1994). Discourse analysis as a research method in library and information science. Library and Information Science Research, 16, 119-138.
17. Goswami, A., (2001). The physicists' view of nature. Part 2. The quantum revolution. New York: Kluwer Academic.
18. Greene, B., (2011). The hidden reality: Parallel universes and the deep laws of the cosmos. New York: Knopf.
19. Greene, J.C., (2006). Toward a methodology of mixed methods social inquiry. Research in the Schools, 13 (1), 93-98.
20. Guba, E.G., &, Lincoln, Y.S., (1994). Competing paradigms in qualitative research. In, N.K. Denzin, &, Y.S. Lincoln, (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 105-117). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
21. Habermas, J., (1984). The theory of communicative action (Vol. 1). Reason and the rationalization of society. Boston: Beacon Press.
22. Habermas, J., (1987). The theory of communicative action (Vol. 2). Lifeworld and system: A critique of functionalist reason. Boston: Beacon Press.
23. Habermas, J., (1988). On the logic of social sciences. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
24. Harrits, G.S., (2011). More than method?: A discussion of paradigm differences within mixed methods research. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 5 (2), 150-166.
25. Hjørland, B., (2007). Information: Objective or subjective/situational? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58 (10), 1448-1456. (Pubitemid 47196188)
26. Johnson, R.B., &, Onwuegbuzie, A.J., (2004). Mixed methods research: A research paradigm whose time has come. Educational Researcher, 33 (7), 14-26. (Pubitemid 39519587)
27. Johnson, R.B., Onwuegbuzie, A.J., &, Turner, L.A., (2007). Toward a definition of mixed methods research. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 1 (2), 112-133.
28. Kuhn, T.S., (1996). The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
29. Kvale, S., (1995). The social construction of validity. Qualitative Inquiry, 1 (1), 19-40.
30. Latour, B., &, Woolgar, S., (1986). Laboratory life: The construction of scientific facts. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
31. Lincoln, Y.S., Lynham, S.A., &, Guba, E.G., (2011). Paradigmatic controversies, contradictions, and emerging confluences, revisited. In, N.K. Denzin, &, Y.S. Lincoln, (Eds.), The Sage handbook of qualitative research (pp. 97-128). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
32. Ma, L., (2010). Information as discursive construct. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 47 (1), 1-4. doi:10.1002/meet.14504701098.
33. McCarthy, T., (1991). Ideals and illusions: On reconstruction and deconstruction in contemporary critical theory. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
34. Modell, S., (2009). In defence of triangulation: A critical realist approach to mixed methods research in management accounting. Management Accounting Research, 20 (3), 208-221.
35. Morse, J.M., (2010). Simultaneous and sequential qualitative mixed method designs. Qualitative Inquiry, 16 (6), 483-491.
36. Moyer, M., (2012, February). Is space digital? Scientific American, 31-37.
37. Pickard, A.J., (2007). Research methods in information. London: Facet.
38. Rosenbaum, H., (1993). Information use environments and structuration: Towards an integration of Taylor and Giddens. Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 30, 235-245.
39. Rosenbaum, H., &, Shachaf, P., (2010). A structuration approach to online communities of practice: The case of Q&A communities. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61 (9), 1933-1944.
40. Rosenblum, B., &, Kuttner, F., (2006). Quantum enigma: Physics encounters consciousness. New York: Oxford University Press.
41. Savolainen, R., (2007). Information behavior and information practice: Reviewing the "umbrella concepts" of information-seeking studies. Library Quarterly, 77 (2), 109-132.
42. von Baeyer, H.C., (2003). Information: The new language of science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
43. Wildemuth, B.M., (2009). Applications of social research methods to questions in information and library science. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.
44. Wittgenstein, L., (1958). Philosophical investigations. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.