Ethnomethodology and the Visual Practices of Looking, Visualization, and Embodied Action

Smith, Gwh; Ball, Mike

doi:10.4135/9781526417015.n26

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“…There is now a well-established body of work that draws heavily on EMCA to explore empirically the ways that visuality is achieved in social action as a set of working practices (Broth et al, 2014;Heath and Luff, 2000;Heinemann, 2016;Hindmarsh and Heath, 2000). Methodologically, in this tradition the empirical exploration of vision as action relies substantially on video as a means of analysing the ways that people make the social world accountable through vision, and the complexity of resources, such as gesture, gaze, physical objects, and talk, through which 'seeing' is performed, made, and made possible (Ball & Smith, 2012). For instance, Heath and Luff's (1992) Similar studies have been carried out in very diverse settings, including air traffic control rooms (R. Harper & Hughes, 1993), recreational cycling (McIlvenny, 2013), emergency care (Bjørn & Rødje, 2008), medical surgery (Bezemer et al, 2011), archaeology (Goodwin, 1994) and brain scanning (Alač, 2008).…”

Section: Vision As An Interactional Accomplishmentmentioning

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Seeing as accountable action: The interactional accomplishment of sensorial work

Gibson

Lehn

2019

Current Sociology

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In this article it is argued that the growing field of the sociology of the senses has had a strong methodological focus on people’s accounts of their sensorial experiences at the expense of studying the practical achievement of sense work as an interactional phenomenon. Recent work has called for more innovative methods in sensorial scholarship and the use of creative approaches to explore the senses. While applauding this move, in this article the authors show the importance of a focus on micro-behavioural actions in studying the senses. Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, they analyse video recordings of near vision tests in optometry consultations illustrating the highly routinised, but also the embodied and improvised character of the actions through which the vision is made available for scrutiny. They argue that sensorial scholarship has sidelined the study of social context as a lived-order and demonstrate the importance of treating sensorial actions as routinised, embodied and improvisatory. The authors agree that using more creative methods would be valuable but caution against relying exclusively on methods that do not sufficiently contextualise the senses as a lived and practical social accomplishment.

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Section: Vision As An Interactional Accomplishmentmentioning

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Seeing as accountable action: The interactional accomplishment of sensorial work

Gibson

Lehn

2019

Current Sociology

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“…Margolis and Pauwels, 2011; Pink, 2012; Sidnell and Stivers, 2013; Stanczak, 2007; Van Leeuwen and Jewitt, 2001). 1 Most visual-method handbooks published during the last 5 to 10 years include a chapter on visual transcription conventions within EMCA (Ball and Smith, 2011; Forrester, 2011; Hindsmarsh and Tutt, 2012). A common denominator for all these publications is the how of making visual transcriptions, only a few of the texts reflect on the video camera as a cultural tool (see Forrester, 2011).…”

Section: Visual Research In the Social Sciencesmentioning

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Visual transcriptions as socio-technical assemblages

Aarsand

Sparrman

2019

Visual Communication

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With the development of visual digital technologies it has become more common in the social sciences to both use and present research visually. This article explores different strategies for working with and including images in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA) transcriptions. The purpose is to investigate how, and if, the ontology of the transcript changes when verbal transcripts become visual transcripts. The article explores what ensures that a transcript is still a transcript and what happens to the reflexive interpretative strategy fundamental to EMCA when new digital technologies make it possible to incorporate images in transcripts. The article’s focus is on the social life of methods as well as methodological productivity showing how images can enact different social ‘realities’ and scientific knowledge.

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“…Some of the most productive contributions toward developing a sociology of seeing are associated with ethnomethodology (Ball 2003; Ball and Smith 2011). In 1994, Charles Goodwin published a groundbreaking paper titled “Professional Vision.” Goodwin seeks to characterize the kinds of practices that constitute professional vision as a distinct way of ordering visual experience.…”

Section: Toward a Sociology Of Seeingmentioning

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“… 5. On this distinction, see Ball and Smith 2011 and Goodwin 2004. It should be noted that talk can be a feature of activity systems in ways that are not strictly speaking “conversational.” Classroom lessons, lectures, and public address announcements, for example, are not conversational, but are important occasions for uses of talk. …”

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Looking at Whales: Narration and the Organization of Visual Experience

Grahame

2018

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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While interest in visual representations of animals is well established in visual sociology, this article explores another set of possibilities connected with practices of looking at animals. In particular, I examine the social organization of visual experience in whale watching, with a focus on the role of narration. Using detailed transcriptions of whale watch narration as data, I argue that naturalists produce publicly witnessed trip sightings by coordinating what can be seen in the water with understandings of whales as objects of scientific research and environmental concern.

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Ethnomethodology and the Visual Practices of Looking, Visualization, and Embodied Action

Cited by 7 publications

References 35 publications

Seeing as accountable action: The interactional accomplishment of sensorial work

Seeing as accountable action: The interactional accomplishment of sensorial work

Visual transcriptions as socio-technical assemblages

Looking at Whales: Narration and the Organization of Visual Experience

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