Video studies of conversational aspects of video activities
1st-2nd July 2010, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
Convenors: Mathias Broth, Eric Laurier & Lorenza Mondada
The last two decades have seen a rapid increase in the production and consumption of video by both professionals and amateurs. Video sequences have been recognized to powerfully both inform and display our understanding of real events in the world (cf. Jayyusi, 1988; Macbeth, 1999). The spread of practices of producing, circulating and viewing video have profound and complex effects on households, workplaces and research. Nevertheless, empirical studies of video practices still remain very scarce. By bringing together scholars who share an interest in the reception and production of video as the practical accomplishment of participants, the current panel intends to further the scientific reflection on how video works in, and for, the practical purposes of action-in-interaction. In an unusual twist we will use video records of video activities. The contributions to this panel will investigate how video may figure as a topic in, or as a resource for, communities of practice. Analytic themes to be explored include, but are not limited to:
a) the accountability and categorizing power of camera pans, shots and shots-in-sequences,
b) coordination in post-production or live video editing,
c) the reflexive relation between footage/shots/edited sequences and the emergent construction of turns and sequences of talk,
d) use and design of video technology, and
e) mediation effects.
In addressing such matters, the panel will emphasize and demonstrate the relevance of multimodal practices such as gaze, pointings, body postures, and manipulations of objects and technology that may be as important as talk for the sequential achievement of intersubjectivity in human interaction.
References
Jayyusi, Lena, 1988. Toward a socio-logic of the film text. Semiotica 68, 271–296.
Macbeth, Douglas, 1999. Glances, trances, and their relevance for a visual sociology. In: Jalbert, P.L. (Ed.), Media Studies: Ethnomethodological Approaches. University Press of America, Lanham, pp. 135-170.
Papers:
Alain Bovet (University of Fribourg)
Learning to be filmed in TV talent shows
Mathias Broth (Linköping University)
Going live. On countdowns in TV-production
Timothy Koschmann (Southern Illinois University, School of Medecine), Curtis LeBaron (Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Management)
Camerawork in the Operating Room
Eric Laurier (University of Edinburgh), Ignaz Strebel (University of Edinburgh), Barry Brown (University of California, San Diego)
The Reservations of the Editor
Christian Licoppe, Julien Morel (Department of Social Science, Telecom ParisTech, Institut Telecom)
The production of meaningful shots in mobile video telephony as a collaborative accomplishment
Paul McIlvenny (Aalborg University)
Video Interventions in ‘Everyday Life’: Localising, Translating and Stretching Conduct in Reality TV Parenting Programmes
Mark Perry (Brunel University)
Mediated multi-stream media production: making sense of sense-making in distributed and multi-participant professional video production
1st-2nd July 2010, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
Convenors: Mathias Broth, Eric Laurier & Lorenza Mondada
The last two decades have seen a rapid increase in the production and consumption of video by both professionals and amateurs. Video sequences have been recognized to powerfully both inform and display our understanding of real events in the world (cf. Jayyusi, 1988; Macbeth, 1999). The spread of practices of producing, circulating and viewing video have profound and complex effects on households, workplaces and research. Nevertheless, empirical studies of video practices still remain very scarce. By bringing together scholars who share an interest in the reception and production of video as the practical accomplishment of participants, the current panel intends to further the scientific reflection on how video works in, and for, the practical purposes of action-in-interaction. In an unusual twist we will use video records of video activities. The contributions to this panel will investigate how video may figure as a topic in, or as a resource for, communities of practice. Analytic themes to be explored include, but are not limited to:
a) the accountability and categorizing power of camera pans, shots and shots-in-sequences,
b) coordination in post-production or live video editing,
c) the reflexive relation between footage/shots/edited sequences and the emergent construction of turns and sequences of talk,
d) use and design of video technology, and
e) mediation effects.
In addressing such matters, the panel will emphasize and demonstrate the relevance of multimodal practices such as gaze, pointings, body postures, and manipulations of objects and technology that may be as important as talk for the sequential achievement of intersubjectivity in human interaction.
References
Jayyusi, Lena, 1988. Toward a socio-logic of the film text. Semiotica 68, 271–296.
Macbeth, Douglas, 1999. Glances, trances, and their relevance for a visual sociology. In: Jalbert, P.L. (Ed.), Media Studies: Ethnomethodological Approaches. University Press of America, Lanham, pp. 135-170.
Papers:
Alain Bovet (University of Fribourg)
Learning to be filmed in TV talent shows
Mathias Broth (Linköping University)
Going live. On countdowns in TV-production
Timothy Koschmann (Southern Illinois University, School of Medecine), Curtis LeBaron (Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Management)
Camerawork in the Operating Room
Eric Laurier (University of Edinburgh), Ignaz Strebel (University of Edinburgh), Barry Brown (University of California, San Diego)
The Reservations of the Editor
Christian Licoppe, Julien Morel (Department of Social Science, Telecom ParisTech, Institut Telecom)
The production of meaningful shots in mobile video telephony as a collaborative accomplishment
Paul McIlvenny (Aalborg University)
Video Interventions in ‘Everyday Life’: Localising, Translating and Stretching Conduct in Reality TV Parenting Programmes
Mark Perry (Brunel University)
Mediated multi-stream media production: making sense of sense-making in distributed and multi-participant professional video production