Video as Method

ISBN: 9780190222079 出版年：2016 页码：209 Harris, Anne M Oxford University Press

This book argues that one of the greatest strengths of choosing video for both qualitative and quantitative research is its flexible and almost multi-perspectival potential for gathering, analyzing, writing up and disseminating the research findings. The rise of visual methods has not always ensured that researchers know how best to use video as distinct from other visual methods, nor how to disseminate their findings and video artifacts. Understanding the rich potential of video as method (and not just as a tool) is a process inextricably linked to epistemological, design, analysis, and dissemination choices. This new volume provides researchers with a guide to understanding, writing up, and evaluating video-based research, and the rapid proliferation of approaches, uses, and designs now available. In the face of large datasets and the great range of types and uses of video as an effective research tool, many researchers struggle to know how best to represent both video-based methodologies and research findings. By drawing on the literature from such diverse fields as developmental psychology, sociology, medicine and nursing, social sciences including cultural studies, and mathematics and science education, this text leads readers through a range of ways of using video from research design to dissemination, using detailed case studies from these varied disciplines. Innovative exemplars of new video practice are provided in each chapter, with practical approach instructions as readers are stepped through the chapter topics in a methodical fashion that mirrors the research journey.