Videotape safaris: Entering the field with a camera

Albrecht, Gary L.

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“…Strategies suggested include a covert approach to the data collection itself (cf. Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Haass, 1974;Gottdiener, 1979;Albrecht, 1985) or the application of triangulative techniques such as respondent validation (Gottdiener, 1979;Albrecht, 1985 andArborelius andTimpka, 1990). In this paper we suggest that both these views are problematic.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…Albrecht, 1985;Erikson and Schultz, 1982;Gottdeiner, 1979;Grimshaw, 1982) and across various disciplines, most notably anthropology in its use of photography, film and video (Feld and Williams, 1975;Heider, 1976). The ability to record the minutia of social life makes it an ideal method for a number of research objectives and theoretical approaches.…”

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“…307 -8;Heath and Luff, 1993). The reliability of the data is, in a sense, self-evident because the recorded image may be repeatedly re-played, enabling analysis to be delayed until the researcher has left the field (Gottdiener, 1979;Albrecht, 1985) and allowing other researchers to conduct their own analysis (Gottdiener, 1979;Grimshaw, 1982;Arborelius and Timpka, 1990;Lundevall et al, 1994). …”

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confidence: 99%

“…Despite these apparent advantages there is a relative scarcity of sociological research in which video has been used to generate data (though note Goodwin, 1981;Grimshaw, 1982;Albrecht, 1985 andHeath, 1986). As Heath (1986: p. 4) notes, much of the work involving the creation of visual data specifically for analysis has been developed by psychologists working within an experimental framework.…”

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Recording Social Life: Reflexivity and Video Methodology

Lomax¹,

Casey²

1998

Sociological Research Online

136

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The degree to which researcher generated visual records (for example video texts) may be used to collect valid information about the social world is subject to considerable academic debate (cf. Feld and Williams, 1975;Gottdiener, 1979 andGrimshaw, 1982). On the one hand the method is assumed, by implication, to have limited impact on the data, the taped image being treated as a replica of the unrecorded event (Vihman and Greenlee, 1987;Vuchinich, 1986). On the other, it is suggested that the video camera has a uniquely distorting effect on the researched phenomenon (Gottdiener, 1979: p. 61; Heider, 1976: p. 49). Research participants, it is argued, demonstrate a reactive effect to the video process such that data is meaningful only if special precautions are taken to validate it. Strategies suggested include a covert approach to the data collection itself (cf. Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Haass, 1974;Gottdiener, 1979;Albrecht, 1985) or the application of triangulative techniques such as respondent validation (Gottdiener, 1979;Albrecht, 1985 andArborelius andTimpka, 1990). In this paper we suggest that both these views are problematic. The insistence of one on marginalising the role of the research process and the other on attempting to separate the process from the research data is at the expense of exploring the degree to which the process helps socially and interactionally produce the data. As we demonstrate, the activity of data collection is constitutive of the very interaction which is then subsequently available for investigation. A reflexive analysis of this relationship is therefore essential. Video generated data is an ideal resource in as far as it can provide a faithful record of the process as an aspect of the naturally occurring interaction which comprises the research topic.

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1998

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“…Much has been said about the methodological value of using a video camera to collect data (Albrecht, 1985;Erikson & Schultz 1982;Gottdeiner, 1979;Grimshaw, 1982;Heath, 1986) with various cautions around 'contamination' if participants know they are being filmed. Given my theoretical orientation in this research study, however, I believed one cannot observe the world without being present in it and involved in its constitution.…”

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The New Normal: A Bourdieusian Examination of Living Into Young Adulthood Being a Paediatric Heart Transplant Recipient

Mauthner

Angus

Gastaldo

et al. 2014

The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

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Improved success of paediatric cardiac transplantation has resulted in increased survival of recipients into young adulthood (19 to 29 years of age). Young adults who received a heart transplant during childhood have experienced multiple life sustaining procedures. As survival and longevity increase, it is clear that transplant recipients experience negative physiological, psychological and social sequelae. With heart transplant offering individuals a chance to extend life into young adulthood, recipients need lifelong care and at age 18 they will transition from paediatric to adult healthcare facilities. The study addressed young adults circumstances of existence and their competing interests within various social environments. This research project applied Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical concepts of habitus, field and capital, to conceptualize and engage with empirical knowledge production about young adults who have received a heart transplant during childhood. Using visual methodology, focused open-ended interviews were conducted with 12 young adults who had a heart transplant during childhood. Bourdieu's work iii provided a theoretical framework to investigate transplant recipients' identities and social repositioning in relation to dominant discourses of organ transplant and shifting relationships with health services providers. This study involved an iterative process to identify recipients' encounters and new compositions in relation with others, in order to answer the research objective. These findings highlight that young adult transplant recipients struggle with relational dispositions that excludes them from various fields of social engagement; their struggle and exclusion from various fields is symbolic and is embedded in the structure of the dominant social order of the field from where they become excluded; the social order is taken up and embodied, leading young transplant recipients to practices of accommodation and "normalization". Changes

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Videotape safaris: Entering the field with a camera

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Recording Social Life: Reflexivity and Video Methodology

Recording Social Life: Reflexivity and Video Methodology

The New Normal: A Bourdieusian Examination of Living Into Young Adulthood Being a Paediatric Heart Transplant Recipient

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