Media assemblages, ethnographic vis-ability and the enactment of video in sociological research

Liegl, Michael; Schindler, Larissa

doi:10.1080/1600910x.2013.863791

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“…All in all, this emphasizes the importance of considering qualitative research as a productive and constructive activity. Liegl and Schindler (2013) discuss here the idea of media assemblage through which research is made possible. In that, video cameras as well as other devices interact with researchers, research participants, locations and times to produce certain versions of reality that can only be seen as a result of those interactions rather than an evidence of reality.…”

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Institutional Life in Making: Methodological Reflections on the Use of Video Recordings in Qualitative Research

Wilińska¹

2020

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Qualitative research is always about some form of intervention into the real world, however that intervention is always mediated by various material practices employed in the research process. This article engages with material practices accompanying research to discuss the ways in which they influence the research process, the observed and the observer. More specifically, this article attends to the use of video technology in qualitative research to reflect upon the material practices that not only make the world visible but also shed light on the research process through which such worlds become known. Reflections from research on institutions and institutional life are used to demonstrate points of interaction that transform the worlds of research and the worlds of everyday life.

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Institutional Life in Making: Methodological Reflections on the Use of Video Recordings in Qualitative Research

Wilińska¹

2020

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“…While they cannot be said to preserve and represent practical work as lived reality (cf. Liegl and Schindler, 2013), they allow a second, more distanced or even distorted (through slow motion and fast forward) look at events that are all too familiar. The detailed handling and manipulation of technologies are seen anew and become observable for analysis.…”

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Ethnography and organisations: materiality and change as methodological challenges

Schubert

Röhl

2017

Qualitative Research

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We discuss two methodological challenges for ethnographies of organisations that have become increasingly relevant, namely issues of materiality and change. Both have been addressed separately in the past and we revisit the arguments made so far in order to bring them together. The two methodological challenges are connected to empirical developments and theoretical advances in organisation studies and beyond. We argue that materiality and change can be taken up by ethnographic research of organisations in different manners, but that they have to be addressed in order to gain a deeper understanding in current processes of organising. We also see these challenges as two interrelated themes that may help to make different organisational ethnographies comparable.

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“…The video-camera as well only produces excellent documents when we grant to the selected detail in the camera's display what we would not grant to any human participant: that it is preserving what has "actually" happened.' Moreover, EMCA and media scholars have critiqued the dominant use of (2D) video recordings because of, for instance (a) the inadequacy of video for analysing the situated accomplishment of certain phenomena/orders of everyday action, (b) the limitations of video to 'capture' reality, (c) the intrusiveness of video recording in everyday settings, (d) the screen essentialism and planocentrism of flat video and (e) the false universalism of one-dimensional audio (Liegl and Schindler, 2013;Livingstone, 1987;Lowood, 2016;Schröter, 2014).…”

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The future of ‘video’ in video-based qualitative research is not ‘dumb’ flat pixels! Exploring volumetric performance capture and immersive performative replay

McIlvenny

2020

Qualitative Research

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Qualitative research that focuses on social interaction and talk has been increasingly based, for good reason, on collections of audiovisual recordings in which 2D flat-screen video and mono/stereo audio are the dominant recording media. This article argues that the future of ‘video’ in video-based qualitative studies will move away from ‘dumb’ flat pixels in a 2D screen. Instead, volumetric performance capture and immersive performative replay rely on a procedural camera/spectator-independent representation of a dynamic real or virtual volumetric space over time. It affords analytical practices of re-enactment – shadowing or redoing modes of seeing/listening as an active spectation for ‘another next first time’ – which play on the tense relationships between live performance, observability, spectatorship and documentation. Three examples illustrate how naturally occurring social interaction and settings can be captured volumetrically and re-enacted immersively in virtual reality (VR) and what this means for data integrity, evidential adequacy and qualitative analysis.

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Media assemblages, ethnographic vis-ability and the enactment of video in sociological research

Cited by 7 publications

References 37 publications

Institutional Life in Making: Methodological Reflections on the Use of Video Recordings in Qualitative Research

Institutional Life in Making: Methodological Reflections on the Use of Video Recordings in Qualitative Research

Ethnography and organisations: materiality and change as methodological challenges

The future of ‘video’ in video-based qualitative research is not ‘dumb’ flat pixels! Exploring volumetric performance capture and immersive performative replay

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