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In recent years, the use of video has soared spurring debate about the body-camera-environment connection and other concepts a social scientist considering this research tool will face. In this volume we zoom in on ethics, methodology, and analysis, while also zooming out on a wider praxis. The time is here to collectively identify our experiences, methods, and knowledge of video as a research methodology. This compilation of work unpacks the use of video as a research tool. Often through the interdisciplinary lens of environmental psychology as well as anthropology, sociology, and the broader field of psychology, fascinating angles of the use of participant and naturalistic observations are captured along with that of participatory action research. Strategies such as recording video messages, the creation of student informed videos, and facilitating videos taken by or edited by research participants are coupled with methods for obtaining Institutional Review Board approvals, analysis, development of theory or action, and presentation. This volume presents thought provoking, cutting-edge research that is both accessible to students and useful for social scientists who are yearning for a more accurate way to collect, analyze, and present data in our hyper-technical, visual, and competitive world.
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Video Vision Changing the Culture of Social Science Research
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Video Vision Changing the Culture of Social Science Research
Edited by
Martin J. Downing, Jr. and Lauren J. Tenney
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DEDICATION To Claude “Tommy” Downing for making all of this possible. Also to my parents (Dad and Betty) and Laura for the support and encouragement they have continued to show. MJD
To you! 10e
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Why Video? How Technology Advances Method Martin J. Downing, Jr. Part I: Zoom In: A Focus on Ethics, Method and Analysis Chapter 2 When No One Was Watching: Human Subject Protections and Videotaping (Take One) Lauren J. Tenney and Patricia MacCubbin Chapter 3 Video Messages in Social Science Research: Methodological and Ethical Considerations Kimberly Libman and Desiree Fields Chapter 4 How We Learned to Love The Immersion of Digital Video Editing Zeynep Turan and David Chapin Part II: Zoom Out: A Wider Praxis Chapter 5 Watching Transformation in Student-Made Videos Lara Margaret Beaty Chapter 6 Ethnography, Video & the Aesthetics of Engagement Jason Pine
5 Chapter 7 Capturing the Hike Experience on Video: An Alternative Framework for Studying Human Response to Nature Claudia Mausner Chapter 8 Remember to Press Record: A Practical Guide for Using Video in Research Autumn Beckman Conclusion Appendix Index
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LIST OF IMAGES 2-1 Use of technology to blur video of participants from “Can You Dig It?” (2006) reading through The Opal (1851-1860) to protect their vulnerability 2-2 When asked for permission to use this photo from (2006) video in this chapter, this participant from “Can You Dig It?” responds, “Of course you can use it. I just wish you could see me a little better” 2-3 Video of 10e (Lauren Tenney) during a reading and interview session of “Can You Dig It?” (2006) 2-4 Video of someone signing a petition to stop the use of Electroshock Treatment (ECT) on children in New York State. More than 1,100 petitions were gathered and presented to the New York State Office Mental Health, to no avail, during the recruitment period of “Can You Dig It?” 2-5 Video of the Encampment on the East Lawn of New York State’s Capitol Building during a 9-day protest and fast calling attention to and attempting to stop the use of Electroshock Treatment (ECT) on children and other atrocities 2-6 Video of a chalk drawing at the foot of the New York State Capitol Building made by one of the participants of “C