Browsing Waterloo Research by Subject "thematic analysis"
Now showing items 1-6 of 6
-
Advancing Public Health through Computational Thematic Analysi
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023-04-28)Public health researchers often use thematic analysis to develop human understandings of discussions from online communities. However, these analyses are difficult to conduct because of their and a general lack of programming ... -
Agency and Amplification: A Comparison of Manual and Computational Thematic Analyses by Public Health Researchers
(ACM, 2023-01)Computational techniques offer a means to overcome the amplified complexity and resource-intensity of qualitative research on online communities. However, we lack an understanding of how these techniques are integrated by ... -
The Computational Thematic Analysis Toolkit
(ACM, 2022-01)As online communities have grown, Computational Social Science has rapidly developed new techniques to study them. However, these techniques require researchers to become experts in a wide variety of tools in addition to ... -
"I Will Not Drink With You Today": A Topic-Guided Thematic Analysis of Addiction Recovery on Reddit
(ACM, 2022-04)Recovery from addiction is a journey that requires a lifetime of support from a strong network of peers. Many people seek out this support through online communities, like those on Reddit. However, as these communities ... -
Makers and Quilters: Investigating Opportunities for Improving Gender-Imbalanced Maker Groups
(ACM, 2019-11)Recent efforts to diversify participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) activities through informal learning environments, such as hackathons and makerspaces, confirm a real desire for inclusion among ... -
Reflections on Our Human-Centred Qualitative Data Science Journey
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-28)We are HCI researchers from the University of Waterloo’s School of Public Health Sciences. Many of our colleagues are social science researchers, and are tackling important issues like vaccine hesitancy, mental health, and ...