Making Data in Qualitative Research offers a generative alternative to outdated approaches to data collection. By reimagining methods through a model of data engagement qualitative researchers consider what is at stakeâethically methodologically and theoreticallyâwhen we co-create data and imagine possibilities for doing data differently. Ellingson and Sotirin draw on critical intersectional perspectives including feminist poststructuralist new materialist and postqualitative theorizing to refigure methodological practices of data collection for the contemporary moment. Ellingson and Sotirinâs data engagement model offers a vibrant framework through which data are made rather than found; assembled rather than collected or gathered; and becoming or dynamic rather than static. Further pragmatism compassion and joy form a compelling ethical foundation for engaging with qualitative data reflecting the full range of critical postpositivist intepretivist and arts-based research methods. Chapters illuminate creative possibilities for engaging fieldnotes audio/video recordings and photographs transcription digital/online data participatory data and self-as-data. Making Data in Qualitative Research is a great resource for researchers who want to move past simplistic approaches to qualitative data collection and embrace provocative possibilities for engaging with data. Bridging abstract theorizing and pragmatic strategies for making a wide variety of data this book will appeal to graduate (and advanced undergraduate) qualitative methods students and early career researchers as well as to advanced scholars looking to update and expand the scope of their methods. . Language: English