1st Edition

Video-Analysis and Knowledge on Rewind Contributions to Social Theory and the Sociology of Knowledge

Edited By Ajit Singh, Christian Meier zu Verl, René Tuma Copyright 2025
258 Pages 111 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 111 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume applies interpretive video‑analysis to explore the intersections between the sociology of knowledge and interaction studies. Presenting a series of studies that draw on video‑analytic and videographic approaches to research, it examines the way video data can shed light on connections between social phenomena at the micro‑, meso‑, and macro‑levels, and the access that it grants to the... Read more

1 Video analysis and knowledge on rewind: an introduction

PART I Embodied coordination of action and the social impact of sensuality

2 Making music together: on the sensuality of string ensemble playing

3 Dementia, bodies and technologies of the We: a video analysis of interactions under conditions of uncertainty

PART II Social norms and spatial figurations

4 The spatial and communicative forms of keeping social distance: videographic accounts of public interaction from the first phase of the COVID‑19 pandemic

5 Queuing interaction bodies: indexicality and (mis)interpretations of bodily‑spatial arrangements in spaces of consumption

PART III Media, mediatised communication, and technologically mediated practices

6 Layered bodily modalities: on the interplay of presence and representation in virtual multiuser environments

7 On the meaning of sexualised violent music videos: researching youth scenes and their artefacts

PART IV Video, violence, and its forms of visual representation

8 Killing from a distance: insights into contemporary warfare with video analysis

9 Fighting styles and bodily knowledge in street fights

PART V Communicative construction of science

10 Communicatively constructing lines between publics and science: video analysis in the field of science communication

11 Experimenting in the economic laboratop: on the interplay of performance and performativity in the production of economic research data

PART VI The meaning of video and the (re)use of video data

12 Video as a medium of placeness: exemplified by a case of second breakfast in an educational setting

13 Communicative genre analysis, communicative budget, and archiving and re‑using audio‑visual research data

Biography

Ajit Singh is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Duisburg‑Essen. He is a principal investigator of the DFG‑funded research project Synthetic Planning – Digital Mediatisation of Collaborative Communication Work and Changes in Planning Knowledge.

Christian Meier zu Verl is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz. He is a co‑speaker of the interdisciplinary research network Dis‑/abilities and Digital Media and a principal investigator of the research project Everyday Life in Families with Migration History.

René Tuma is a postdoctoral researcher at Technische Universität Berlin. He is a principal investigator on the international ORA Research project Visions of Policing and associated member of the DFG CRC 1265 Re‑Figuration of Spaces.