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The video camera as a cultural object: The presence of (an)Other.

Forrester, Michael A. (2011) The video camera as a cultural object: The presence of (an)Other. In: Reavey, P., ed. Visual methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research. Psychology Press, Routledge, London, pp. 119-138. ISBN 978-0-415-48348-3. (KAR id:33494)

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Abstract

The emergence and rising significance of qualitative methods in psychology is coterminous with the introduction and advancement of recording technologies (both audio and visual, and analogue and digital). It is likely that part of the reason for this is the apparently less interpretative nature of technologically reproducible ‘factual’ documents, that is in comparison to earlier methods such as diary studies and ethnographic field notes. Across the discipline there are many examples which exhibit that close and particular integration of theoretical development, methodological innovation, data-collection practices and the associated conventions of interpretation – all coalescing around the record – the documentary evidence produced by audio and video techniques and technologies (Ochs, 1979; Zuengler, Ford & Fassnacht, 1998). Observational methods in developmental psychology and discursive approaches found in social psychology are two such example domains difficult to imagine developing in they way they have without the corresponding availability of recording devices and techniques. The aim in what follows is to consider, and place into context, video-recording as a research practice in what is often described as a naturalistic or an ‘everyday’ setting, particularly when one of the participants also has the dual role of researcher/participant. The focus is on understanding something of how participants orient towards, accommodate or otherwise respond to the video-camera as a cultural object particularly when it used regularly in an everyday context (family mealtime recordings).

Item Type: Book section
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: Michael Forrester
Date Deposited: 26 Mar 2013 16:47 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:10 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/33494 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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