- Open coding

- Axial coding

- Selective coding


Types of coding in GTM

- Code sets up a relationship with the data and carries the abstraction of the new

- Coding is a matter of both attachment and separation within the data


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- The core work of grounded theory is to describe the data and the domain of the data through a series of descriptive codes. 


Working with data in GTM 

Muller, M. J., & Kogan, S. (2010). Grounded theory method in HCI and CSCW. Cambridge: IBM Center for Social Software, 1-46.

Grounded theory method in HCI and CSCW

Codes in GTM

•	Core concept: a construct that is created as a human choice by the researcher, who then bears the responsibility for that act of construction. 

•	Closure: the process of determining the core concept.


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