Video Methods

<p>This interdisciplinary collection provides a set of innovative and inventive approaches to the use of video as a research method. Building on the development of visual methods across the social sciences it highlights a range of possibilities for making and working with video data. The collection showcases different video methods including video diaries video go-alongs time-lapse video mobile devices multi-angle video recording video ethnography and ethnographic documentary. Each method is presented through a case study showing how it can be used in practice. The authors offer pragmatic advice and discuss practical issues including equipment techniques and skills analysis and presentation. They also show how video methods can be used in a range of different contexts – at train stations on bicycles in schools outdoors and in museums – to investigate worlds that are visible audible tangible and in motion. In doing so they illuminate the theoretical possibilities that video methods offer for researching the body identity everyday life affect time and space.</p>