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Christian Schmieder, M.A. (Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany)

cschmieder@squaremethodology.com
cschmieder@colgate.edu
(001) – 315 – 750 – 9967

Christian Schmieder studied Sociology and Linguistics at Freiburg University, specializing in qualitative methodology and the effects of qualitative data analysis software on the professional generation of knowledge. After having finished his degree (Magister Artium), he emigrated to the United States.

At present he is a research consultant at Colgate University’s Upstate Institute, and he works as an independent lecturer and methodology/software coach in academic institutions in the United States and Germany (click here for a list of institutions) .

His present scholarly interests lie on the impact of QDA software on the production of academic knowledge, on metaphor theory & analysis and on cross-language communication in qualitative research. He is the co-author of a book on the methodology of metaphor analysis, written in collaboration with Jan Kruse (Freiburg) and Kay Biesel (Berlin) and a co-editor of a forthcoming anthology on qualitative interviewing in foreign language contexts (in collaboration with Jan Kruse, Stephanie Bethmann, Debora Niermann).

Selected publications:

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 Kruse, Jan / Kay Biesel / Christian Schmieder (2011):  Metaphernanalyse. Ein rekonstruktiver Ansatz. Wiesbaden: VS.  (Series “Qualitative Sozialforschung”, edited by Ralf Bohnsack,  Uwe Flick, Christian Lüders & Jo Reichertz) [Metaphor analysis. A reconstructive  approach.]
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 Schmieder, Christian (2009): World of MaskCraft vs. World of TravestyCraft? Communication, sex and gender in the Online Role Playing Game World of Warcraft.  In: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, Vol. 1, Nr. 1, pp 5-22.
Available via Freiburg University Document Server
 Schmieder, Christian (2009): Technik der Legitimation – Legitimation der Technik. Eine qualitative Studie zur Verwendung von MAXqda in qualitativem Forschen. Freiburg: Freidok. URL: http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/7082/   [Legitimization of technology – technique  of legimization. A qualitative study on the use of MAXqda in qualitative research.]
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 Schmitz, Sigrid / Christian Schmieder (2006) : Popularisierungen. Zwischen Naturwissenschaften, Medien und Gesellschaft. In: Kirsten Smilla Ebeling/Sigrid Schmitz (Eds.): Geschlechterforschung und Naturwissenschaften. Einführung in ein komplexes Wechselspiel. Wiesbaden: VS – Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (= Studien Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung Bd. 14). S. 362-378. [Popularizations. Between the sciences, media and society. In: Ebeling/Schmitz: Gender studies and the sciences. Introduction into a complex interplay = Studies on interdisciplinary gender studies, vol 14.]