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Their transformation and mediation to become 'data' through different software packages are briefly explored.ĭrawing on Latour's model of the two-faced Janus of science with which contrasts 'science in the making' with 'ready made science' we turn to consider ways in which this project can invert the usual trope of University education as research led, asking instead how a research project could become teaching-led. The initial stages of the research project are outlined including online participant recruitment via facebook, methods of screen-share remote interviewing to generate rich data exploring software use, and incorporating accounts of researchers' practices. The pre-eminence and influence of expository writing and paucity of empirical research underscore the relevance and potential contribution of this project, We argue that part of that contribution comes from drawing on insights from science and technology studies (STS) which offer a well-developed vocabulary and set of approaches for exploring the agencies and mediation of technologies in the practices of research. We explore the positioning, continuities and disjunctures between manufacturers promoting their software, positioning in teaching and training materials and a range of views in the literature from critical to laudatory, as well as their prevalence in research on networked learning. Computer aided qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) packages such as ATLAS.ti, NVivo and HyperRESEARCH are the focus of competing claims and critiques. This work-in-progress paper explores the intersection of technologies and software with the practices, of qualitative research and qualitative data analysis.

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