ATLAS.ti

The late note for ATLAS.ti

I have been skimming and scanning the manual of ATLAS.ti after having great seminar from EQR Trainer and Consultant, who was Ricardo B. Contreras. His small online seminar was so informative and helpful even though I had some experiences on ATLAS.ti. After getting seminar, I started asking many critical questions about the changing nature of the data. I really appreciate the developments of digital tools and technologies. To get some sense of the mentality (means of production) of ATLAS.ti as commodity.

I gave some time to myself to read the manual, titled as ATLAS.ti 7 User Manual It is well organized and well-written document in. In this post, I am going to evaluate and give a reflection about it. At the beginning, I would like to underline that internet and software technologies should be questioned and philosophized. As we know that human being has created the world with its culture, nature, nurture and aura. For me, Internet is the result of tendency that human mentality always follow and dream. This divine tendency took legitimacy and de facto information from the sky to surface. For defining that transition, the world witnessed many revolutions, which are called Enlightenment movement (Reformation, Restoration, and Renaissance). Historically, it is obvious that we decided to make us and create us on the world.

The second attempt for getting our consciousness into Being. We have just turned other vertex to feel as we are. This second attempt is more based on creating space with its languages, cultures and productions. In this sense, internet as cyber space has its own means and production relations. At the basic level, all of these technologies need energy, machines (operators), real-creators and users. In this sense, internet and software space becomes the line for co-producing and co-consuming the information as commodity and communication. At the side of the communication, we have already crossed the lines among times, geographies, cultures, and nations. We have already crossed the lines between private and public, night and day, dream and real. At this point, I can claim that we are at the new form of declaration for ethics, aesthetics and authenticity of existence.

As a tool and space, manual gives many useful information to organize, reflect and create our own pathways to make sense of our way of thinking and mentality visible for others. VISE is used as acronym to explain the main goals. VISE stands for Visualization, Integration, Serendipity, and Exploration. These seem to me very related with the ethics, aesthetic and authenticity of our enquiring process. First of all, the information and massage are always intrinsic to escape and reconstruct the meaning. Visualization can be seen as a way of democratizing the process of accessibility of meaning and information. Research should be understandable, accessible and transferrable. Secondly. Integration is the other general principal at the manual. Science as human praxis, forms its own way to accumulate itself and co-construct itself by integrating and integrated by different positions, orientations, paradigms, reflections and data. Third one was used by Ricardo in the online seminar. Serendipity means that researchers and research should be open-minded and ready to have many surprises, which might emerge during the process. For example, the research process is similar to walk in the nature. We as researchers have to keep our eyes open to get many things. The last one is Exploration. I can define it like that there is no difference between the beginning and other points. Exploration means that we keep our curiosity and will to know alive.

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