Hi everyone, glad to learn with all of you this semester. As most of you know about me that, I am a second year international doctoral student, and also the current youngest student here I believe. I came originally from China, with bachelor degrees in psychology and library science, and a master in library science.
My current research interest lies in how to promote equal information access for D/deaf and HOH, culturally Deaf especially. I chose this topic because I have seen from my parents (who belong to that group) and their friends, that how eagerly they need information to improve their lives. So I took minors in communication disorder department.
I took this class partly because it is what offered in this semester. More important, I prefer the holistic, meaningful, and never ended approach of qualitative studies. I used to apply interviews to discover the process of serendipity among researchers. And I was amazed at how rich and meaningful 11 interviews told me. Also, I like the feeling to help others to dig out their stories and live experiences.
The impressions from first three articles mainly lie in the importance of qualitative approach to understand richness of social phenomena, especially information phenomena. I can feel how it values human, live experience, openness, and integrity. And also, not that clearly but very strong, I can feel that the most important technique in qualitative approach does not lie in rigorous and “scientific gold rules”, but lies in how much you can be one of your target interviewees, how much you can be emerged by your data, and how much respect you give for live experience itself.