Qualitative research has always been a collaborative endeavor between humans and their available media technologies (e.g., tape recorders, CAQDAS software). We should therefore understand interpretation as a process of distributed cognition, jointly performed by researchers and their technical tools. The advent of generative AI is the latest, non-"black-boxed" step in this media-dependent history. Source: Lieder & Schäffer (2025), pp. 4-5.