Reflections

Understanding Qualitative Content Analysis in the Digital Age

Continuing with the MAXDAYS 2025 sessions, tonight I watched Dr. Kimberly King-Jupiter from Alabama State University and Anita Jarman, a graduate student at Morgan State University, present. Their session had the title “Making Sense of Copious Amounts of Information in a Digital Age.” King-Jupiter spoke about the power of the tool and what can be […]
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How to Analyze Qualitative and Quantitative Data with MAXQDA

Stefan Radiker presented on “Mixed Methods: Integrating QUAL and QUAN with MAXQDA” as part of MAXDAYS 2025. Radiker spoke about how MAXQDA supports data import, exploration, analysis, and reporting of qualitative data. For quantitative data, frequency tables, crosstabs/correlation, charts, descriptive statistics, inference statistics, and other quantitative analysis features ara available. Radiker presented data from a […]
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Social Media Analysis Insights by Caterina Fugazzola at MAXQDAYS 2025

Caterina Fugazzola presented at MAXQDAYS 2025 on “Analyzing Social Media.” Fugazzola has been doing this session at MAXDAYS for years, apparently. Fugazzola is an ethnographer by training and at the University of Chicago. Some challenges of social media analysis noted are the speed and amount of data. Fugazzola warned that there is no single recipe […]
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Understanding Grounded Theory: MAXQDA Applications

Stefan Radiker presented at MAXDAYS 2025 on “Grounded Theory with MAXQDA.” Radiker said that it all started in 1967 with the publication by Barney Glasser and Anselm Strauss on “The Discovery of Grounded Theory.’ Radiker explained the core principles of Grounded Theory studies: Radiker recommends creating a single MAXQDA project from the beginning of the […]
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