Video Analysis: Methodology And Methods: Qualitative Audiovisual Data Analysis In Sociology
by Hubert Knoblauch /
2012 / English / PDF
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In the last few years we have witnessed the widespread
proliferation of video camcorders as a powerful and sophisticated
instrument for data collection. Video is increasingly used in broad
areas of research throughout the social sciences. It allows for a
rich recording of social processes and provides a completely new
kind of data. Used as a «microscope of interaction», this «video
revolution» is expected to exert profound impact on research
practice. But despite its popularity as an instrument, the
methodological discussion of video is still underdeveloped. This
book gathers a selection of outstanding European researchers in the
field of qualitative interpretive video analysis. The contributions
discuss the crucial features of video data and present different
approaches how to handle, interpret, analyse and present video data
collected in a wide range of «real world» social fields. The book
thereby aims at providing an overview on contemporary interpretive
and qualitative approaches to video analysis.
In the last few years we have witnessed the widespread
proliferation of video camcorders as a powerful and sophisticated
instrument for data collection. Video is increasingly used in broad
areas of research throughout the social sciences. It allows for a
rich recording of social processes and provides a completely new
kind of data. Used as a «microscope of interaction», this «video
revolution» is expected to exert profound impact on research
practice. But despite its popularity as an instrument, the
methodological discussion of video is still underdeveloped. This
book gathers a selection of outstanding European researchers in the
field of qualitative interpretive video analysis. The contributions
discuss the crucial features of video data and present different
approaches how to handle, interpret, analyse and present video data
collected in a wide range of «real world» social fields. The book
thereby aims at providing an overview on contemporary interpretive
and qualitative approaches to video analysis.