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This blog post is a response to Steve Wright’s reaction to this comment I made on Twitter on April 27th 2017: “There are no basic or advanced #CAQDAS features, but straightforward or more sophisticated uses of tools appropriate for different tasks” Thanks Steve for starting this conversation – it’s really important to debate these issues, and fun too! See Steve's comments here The sentiment behind the Twitter post underlies the Five-Level QDA® method that Nick Woolf and I hav

I was searching through tweets using the #CAQDAS hashtag the other day and came across one that sent me reeling. And not in a good way. I’ve since been pondering why it prompted such a strong reaction, which might not have happened had I not been to the recent ICQI conference. The language of determinism and constructivism in CAQDAS discourses At the opening plenary of the Digital Tools stream at ICQI, Kristi Jackson, of Queri, Inc. highlighted that critics of CAQDAS often