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The Application Of Interrater Reliability As A Solidification Instrument In A Phenomenological Study, Joan F. Marques, Chester Mccall
The Application Of Interrater Reliability As A Solidification Instrument In A Phenomenological Study, Joan F. Marques, Chester Mccall
The Qualitative Report
Interrater reliability has thus far not been a common application in phenomenological studies. However, once the suggestion w a s brought up by a team of supervising professors during the preliminary orals of a phenomenological study, the utilization of this verification tool turned out to be vital to the credibility level of this type of inquiry, where the researcher is perceived as the main instrument and where bias may, hence, be difficult to eliminate. With creativeness and the appropriate calculation approach the researcher of the here reviewed qualitative study managed to apply this verification tool and found that the establishment …
Phenomenologically Investigating Mediated Nature, Tony E. Adams
Phenomenologically Investigating Mediated Nature, Tony E. Adams
The Qualitative Report
During the summer of 2001 I worked as a bartender in Wyoming, two miles east of Yellowstone National Park. This opportunity provided me with unique experiences of “the wilderness” and as a result, allowed me to become aware of intricacies of living with in a primarily simulated and mass mediated culture, i.e., the United States. Following tenets of phenomenology, this paper investigates the simulated- and mass mediated-ness of society with specific focus on experiences with two nature environments: simulated-nature places (e.g., shopping malls, zoos ) and televised-nature representations (e.g., Crocodile Hunter, Jaws) .