1st Edition

Video Methods Social Science Research in Motion

Edited By Charlotte Bates Copyright 2015
256 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This interdisciplinary collection provides a set of innovative and inventive approaches to the use of video as a research method. Building on the development of visual methods across the social sciences, it highlights a range of possibilities for making and working with video data. The collection showcases different video methods, including video diaries, video go-alongs, time-lapse video, mobile... Read more

Introduction: Putting Things in Motion  Charlotte Bates  1. Intimate Encounters: Making Video Diaries About Embodied Everyday Life  Charlotte Bates  2. Atmospheres of Arrival/Departure and Multi-Angle Video Recording: Reflections from St Pancras and Gare du Nord  Paul Simpson  3. The Mobile Life of Screens: Digital Imaging on School Journeys in Helsinki  Kim Kullman  4. Witnessing Craft: Employing Video Ethnography to Attend to the More-Than-Human Craft Practices of Taxidermy  Merle Patchett  5. Close Encounters: Using Mobile Video Ethnography to Understand Human-Animal Relations  Katrina M. Brown and Esther Banks  6. Jumps, Stutters, Blurs and Other Failed Images: Using Time-Lapse Video in Cycling Research  Katrina Jungnickel  7. Creative Video Ethnographies: Video Methodologies of Urban Exploration  Bradley L. Garrett and Harriet Hawkins  8. Working with Sound in Video: Producing an Experimental Documentary About School Spaces  Michael Gallagher  9. "Everything Is Going On at the Same Time": The Place of Video in Social Research Installations  Britt Hatzius and Nina Wakeford  10. Life Off Grid: Considerations for a Multi-Sited, Public Ethnographic Film  Jonathan Taggart and Phillip Vannini  Afterword: Video Methods Beyond Representation: Experimenting with Multimodal, Sensuous, Affective Intensities in the 21st Century  Phillip Vannini

Biography

Charlotte Bates gained her Ph.D. in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, with a thesis entitled Vital Bodies: A Visual Sociology of Health and Illness in Everyday Life. Her work has been published in Sociological Research Online and Visual Studies.