Video Analysis: Methodology and Methods: Qualitative Audiovisual Data ...

Peter Lang AG

Video Analysis: Methodology and MethodsQualitative Audiovisual Data Analysis in Sociology\nAuthor(s): Hubert Knoblauch, Bernt Schnettler, Jrgen Raab, Hans-Georg Soeffner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Peter Lang AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Peter Lang AG\nISBN-13: 9783631620410, 978-3631620410\nSynopsis\nIn the last few years we have witnessed the widespread proliferation of video camcorders as a powerful and sophisticated instrument for data collection. Video is increasingly used in broad areas of research throughout the social sciences. It allows for a rich recording of social processes and provides a completely new kind of data. Used as a microscope of interaction, this video revolution is expected to exert profound impact on research practice. But despite its popularity as an instrument, the methodological discussion of video is still underdeveloped. This book gathers a selection of outstanding European researchers in the field of qualitative interpretive video analysis. The contrib.