RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Listening to the Voices of America
JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
FD Russell Sage Foundation
SP 1
OP 31
DO 10.7758/RSF.2024.10.4.01
VO 10
IS 4
A1 Edin, Kathryn J.
A1 Fields, Corey D.
A1 Grusky, David B.
A1 Leskovec, Jure
A1 Mattingly, Marybeth J.
A1 Olson, Kristen
A1 Varner, Charles
YR 2024
UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/10/4/1.abstract
AB We make the case for building a permanent public-use platform for conducting and analyzing immersive interviews on the everyday lives of Americans. The American Voices Project (AVP)—a widely watched experiment with this new platform—provides important early evidence on its promise. The articles in this issue reveal that, although public-use interview datasets obviously cannot meet all research needs, they do provide new opportunities to study small or hidden populations, new or emerging social problems, reactions to ongoing social crises, submerged values and attitudes, and many other aspects of American life. We conclude that a permanent AVP platform would help build an “open science” form of qualitative research that complements—rather than replaces—the existing very important body of immersive-interviewing research.