International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 24
Published: March 17, 2025
Our life stories evolve in specific and contextualized places. Although our households may be primarily shaping environment, neighborhoods expose us to the immediate “real world” outside home. Indeed, places where we are currently experiencing have experienced play fundamental roles development of identities, beliefs, fears, perceptions world, even (mis)understanding prospects social mobility. Despite analytic benefits that knowledge contexts experience brings better understanding health outcomes, most qualitative, health, mixed methods researchers continue forego elucidating power geo-contextualizing participants' narratives bring analyses, research findings, conclusions, plans action. From this view then, findings conclusions been ignoring spatial likely shaped experiences participants. The main reason for underuse these geo-contextualized is requirement specialized training geographical information systems (GIS) and/or computer statistical programming along with absence cost-free user-friendly geo-visualization tools allow non-GIS experts benefit from outputs. To address gap, present GeoStoryTelling , an framework user-friendly, cost-free, multi-platform software enables visualize their qualitative narratives. use peer-reviewed (see https://doi.org/10.24433/CO.7385885.v3 ), available Mac ( https://cutt.ly/E724wAx ) Windows https://cutt.ly/J724f0C operating systems, does not require users learn GIS nor computer/statistical obtain state-of-the-art, visually appealing interactive maps. These resulting HTML visualizations capable integrating a variety multi-media inputs include text, image, videos, sound recordings/music, as well hyperlinks other websites—see https://cutt.ly/k7X9tfN . Since relies on OpenStreetMap its applications used worldwide, thus strengthening potential reach methods, ethnographic, scientific communities, regardless location around world.
Language: Английский