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TY - JOUR
T1 - Media assemblages, ethnographic vis-ability and the enactment of video in sociological research
AU - Liegl, Michael
AU - Schindler, Larissa
PY - 2013/12/4
Y1 - 2013/12/4
N2 - Video recordings offer great opportunities for qualitative social science research; their epistemological status, however, has not been left unchallenged. The paper picks up on this methodological debate, sounding out the specific potential of this research medium. Yet instead of primarily participating in methodological debates, we particularly want to inquire into the underlying empirical notions, settings, actors, and sceneries, which inform methodological debates on video. Reviewing research on ‘professional vision’ in Science and Technology Studies we try to raise awareness of the constructive nature of the practices, which manufacture and transform visual traces into evidence. We then look at our own research practice and ask about epistemic topologies which enable video to become a research medium. We will thus try to identify the resources, practices, and things – epistemic mediators – that make other things (video recordings) act like epistemic objects, and, with the help of concepts by Hennion and Law, we look at these networks of mediators and their respective ways of mediation as ‘media assemblages’.
AB - Video recordings offer great opportunities for qualitative social science research; their epistemological status, however, has not been left unchallenged. The paper picks up on this methodological debate, sounding out the specific potential of this research medium. Yet instead of primarily participating in methodological debates, we particularly want to inquire into the underlying empirical notions, settings, actors, and sceneries, which inform methodological debates on video. Reviewing research on ‘professional vision’ in Science and Technology Studies we try to raise awareness of the constructive nature of the practices, which manufacture and transform visual traces into evidence. We then look at our own research practice and ask about epistemic topologies which enable video to become a research medium. We will thus try to identify the resources, practices, and things – epistemic mediators – that make other things (video recordings) act like epistemic objects, and, with the help of concepts by Hennion and Law, we look at these networks of mediators and their respective ways of mediation as ‘media assemblages’.
KW - communication
KW - ethnography
KW - mediation
KW - methodology
KW - science and technology studies
KW - social practices
KW - video analysis
U2 - 10.1080/1600910X.2013.863791
DO - 10.1080/1600910X.2013.863791
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
SP - 254
EP - 270
JO - Distinktion - Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory
JF - Distinktion - Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory
SN - 1600-910X
IS - 3
ER -