Using email interviews

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This Realities toolkit on Email Interviews draws on the author's experience of using email interviews in a multi-method study of older music fans.

It reflects on how the method affected data collection and analysis and discusses how email interviews work in practice.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Are email interviews appropriate for my study?
  • Timing and pace
  • Types of data produced
  • Authenticity and confidentiality
  • Planning and doing email interviews
  • Feedback from participants
  • Further reading

Sources

Gibson, L. (2010). Using Email Interviews. Realities Toolkit, National Centre For Research Methods (NCRM) Realities, University of Manchester. Retrieved from https://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/id/eprint/1303/