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Dematerialized participation challenges: Methods and practices for online focus groups
This study explores the limitations and benefits of different approaches to conducting online focus groups and illustrates an online focus group protocol used within the Value for Schools project in Italy. According to the project evaluation design, 13 online focus groups were organized, with the pa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10118020/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37091722 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1145264 |
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author | Poliandri, Donatella Perazzolo, Monica Pillera, Giuseppe Carmelo Giampietro, Letizia |
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description | This study explores the limitations and benefits of different approaches to conducting online focus groups and illustrates an online focus group protocol used within the Value for Schools project in Italy. According to the project evaluation design, 13 online focus groups were organized, with the participation of 101 teachers and 37 school principals. The protocol setup, incorporation, and reorganization of the indications have been discussed in the literature, addressing the methodological and practical issues, such as the selection of participants and preliminary communication with them; the web conference platform (Zoom Business); timing, as well as access times and mode; the roles of the researchers involved (moderator, co-host technical assistant, co-host-observer, co-host-animator) and their integration spaces; technological support; and animation tools. The recording and transcription tools and subsequent analysis of the textual corpus are presented. Finally, the authors discuss the validation and reliability of online focus group protocols. |
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spelling | pubmed-101180202023-04-21 Dematerialized participation challenges: Methods and practices for online focus groups Poliandri, Donatella Perazzolo, Monica Pillera, Giuseppe Carmelo Giampietro, Letizia Front Sociol Sociology This study explores the limitations and benefits of different approaches to conducting online focus groups and illustrates an online focus group protocol used within the Value for Schools project in Italy. According to the project evaluation design, 13 online focus groups were organized, with the participation of 101 teachers and 37 school principals. The protocol setup, incorporation, and reorganization of the indications have been discussed in the literature, addressing the methodological and practical issues, such as the selection of participants and preliminary communication with them; the web conference platform (Zoom Business); timing, as well as access times and mode; the roles of the researchers involved (moderator, co-host technical assistant, co-host-observer, co-host-animator) and their integration spaces; technological support; and animation tools. The recording and transcription tools and subsequent analysis of the textual corpus are presented. Finally, the authors discuss the validation and reliability of online focus group protocols. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10118020/ /pubmed/37091722 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1145264 Text en Copyright © 2023 Poliandri, Perazzolo, Pillera and Giampietro. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Sociology Poliandri, Donatella Perazzolo, Monica Pillera, Giuseppe Carmelo Giampietro, Letizia Dematerialized participation challenges: Methods and practices for online focus groups |
title | Dematerialized participation challenges: Methods and practices for online focus groups |
title_full | Dematerialized participation challenges: Methods and practices for online focus groups |
title_fullStr | Dematerialized participation challenges: Methods and practices for online focus groups |
title_full_unstemmed | Dematerialized participation challenges: Methods and practices for online focus groups |
title_short | Dematerialized participation challenges: Methods and practices for online focus groups |
title_sort | dematerialized participation challenges: methods and practices for online focus groups |
topic | Sociology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10118020/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37091722 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1145264 |
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