title: Portable MP3 players: innovative devices for recording qualitative interviews.
abstract: Digital technology has provided a new way of recording qualitative interviews, surpassing the clarity, usability and storage capabilities of conventional tape recorders. Ritin Fernandez and Rhonda Griffiths examine a technological resource that pervades modern social life and which can be used effectively for digitally recording interviews for qualitative research.
authors.affiliation: South Western Sydney Centre for Applied Nursing Research, Australia.
authors.forename: Ritin S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Fernandez
authors.forename: Rhonda
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Griffiths
mesh_terms: D016251:CD-ROM; D040421:Cell Phone; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D033262:Narration; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013689:Telephone; D014742:Videodisc Recording / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*