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Jay UlfelderSound advice on mitigating the vicarious trauma that can come with open-source research on awful stuff.The piece focuses on war and violence, but this applies to work on contentious politics, too.A few ways this regularly arises in my work on CCC:* Watching clips of police violence * Watching clips from vigils (for me, esp. ones with grieving parents) * Reading or watching hate screeds<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#protest</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OpenSourceResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSourceResearch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/VicariousTrauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VicariousTrauma</a><a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2022/11/23/how-to-maintain-mental-hygiene-as-an-open-source-researcher/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2022/11/23/how-to-maintain-mental-hygiene-as-an-open-source-researcher/</a>

Gerald Leppert, PhD :verified:In <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a>, digital <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/DataCollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataCollection</a> has become standard for <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/quantitative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quantitative</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/interviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#interviews</a>. There are great <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/DigitalDataCollection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalDataCollection</a> tools for <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/offline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#offline</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/questionnaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#questionnaires</a>:<a href="https://bonn.social/tags/OpenDataKit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenDataKit</a> – I have made excellent experience with <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/ODK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ODK</a> in several <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/surveys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surveys</a>: <a href="http://opendatakit.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://opendatakit.org</a>ODK has a large ecosystem, e.g.: - <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/KoBoToolbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KoBoToolbox</a>: <a href="https://www.kobotoolbox.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.kobotoolbox.org</a> - <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/Enketo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enketo</a> – offline web forms: <a href="https://enketo.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://enketo.org</a><a href="https://bonn.social/tags/ResearchMethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResearchMethods</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/Methods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Methods</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/QuantitativeMethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#QuantitativeMethods</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/OpenSourceResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSourceResearch</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/FLOSSresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FLOSSresearch</a>

Gerald Leppert, PhD :verified:Computer-assisted <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/QualitativeDataAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#QualitativeDataAnalysis</a> Software (<a href="https://bonn.social/tags/QDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#QDA</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/CAQDAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CAQDAS</a>) is great for text interpretation and <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/contentanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contentanalysis</a>. Besides proprietary software <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/MaxQDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaxQDA</a>, <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/NVivo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NVivo</a>, <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/AtlasTi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AtlasTi</a>, there are great <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/crossplatform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crossplatform</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> packages:Client: <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/QualCoder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#QualCoder</a> (inspired by <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/RQDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RQDA</a>) <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/Elan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elan</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/QCoder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#QCoder</a> (alpha)Server/self-hosted: <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/Taguette" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Taguette</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/Cassandre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cassandre</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/CATMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CATMA</a>Special-purpose: <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/qdap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#qdap</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/KHCoder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KHCoder</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/CLAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CLAN</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_qualitative_data_analysis_software" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted_qualitative_data_analysis_software</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/ResearchMethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResearchMethods</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Research</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/QualitativeMethods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#QualitativeMethods</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/Methods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Methods</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/OpenSourceResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSourceResearch</a> <a href="https://bonn.social/tags/FLOSSresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FLOSSresearch</a>

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