qualitative-research

LOOM XV: Theorizing by Building

How Do You Become Someone Who Knows?

"There's no procedure. Nothing tells you it's time to stop. It's the contextual understanding of that artist saying: I have applied enough paint to this canvas that I feel like I'm done. Kevin offered this observation during one of our recent conversa..."

Epistemic Voids #2: Showroom Fallacy

Confusing curation for capacity

"The phrase that stopped me: "The only thing you can do is prompt it.""

Epistemic Voids #1: Citation Theater

When papers become props

"The Post A post went viral on X yesterday (4M views). By the time I came across it, the replies had already turned: gratitude curdling into skepticism, a thread from someone's supervisor that stopped mid-thought. "I wrote 4,000 words of my thesi..."

LOOM XIV: The Calculator Fallacy

When AI Qualitative Analysis Meets Human Expectations

"We were deep into analyzing a large archival dataset when the pattern became impossible to ignore. Imagine a researcher – years of experience in qualitative methods, published extensively on interpretive research – requesting another round of AI anal..."

LOOM VI: The Pattern Beneath the Voices

Cognitive Signatures in Human-AI Research: Towards a Resonant Methodology

"When we first began exploring AI's role in qualitative research, we noticed something curious - different models seemed to approach analysis in distinctly different ways. What started as a simple observation about varying capabilities has evolved int..."

LOOM IV: Dialogue as Method

A Letter on Knowledge Co-Creation in the Age of AI

"The Evolution of Knowledge Creation"

LOOM III: Between Automated Precision and Lived Understanding

A Dialogue on the Future of Social Science Research

"This is the third post of the series - LOOM: Locus of Observed Meanings. Check out the first post for our vision for LOOM."

LOOM: Locus of Observed Meanings

The Moment of Shift

"There's a particular moment when using AI in research that changes everything that follows. You're working with the system - perhaps analyzing interview transcripts or exploring patterns in field notes - when something unexpected happens. The AI make..."

Academic Writing

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