The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed

This article analyses a collection of cases from video recordings of naturally occurring interaction in institutional settings, where members display an orientation to the presence of the recording equipment. Such instances have been treated elsewhere as evidence of contamination of the ecology of t...

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Main Author: Hazel, Spencer
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Published: SAGE 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36292/
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description This article analyses a collection of cases from video recordings of naturally occurring interaction in institutional settings, where members display an orientation to the presence of the recording equipment. Such instances have been treated elsewhere as evidence of contamination of the ecology of the setting. The findings suggest that participants do remain aware of the recording activity, but that they publicly display when they are attending to it. Indeed, it is used as one resource to occasion identity work as competent, knowledgeable members of a particular institutional community, displaying to one another their understanding of the research aims, and their knowledge of how these kinds of data are constituted. Investigating how observational research is oriented to and constituted by the observed allows for a better understanding of what at that moment and in that setting is deemed recording-appropriate or -inappropriate conduct, and offers a more nuanced perspective on how data are co-constituted.
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spelling nottingham-362922020-05-04T17:17:49Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36292/ The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed Hazel, Spencer This article analyses a collection of cases from video recordings of naturally occurring interaction in institutional settings, where members display an orientation to the presence of the recording equipment. Such instances have been treated elsewhere as evidence of contamination of the ecology of the setting. The findings suggest that participants do remain aware of the recording activity, but that they publicly display when they are attending to it. Indeed, it is used as one resource to occasion identity work as competent, knowledgeable members of a particular institutional community, displaying to one another their understanding of the research aims, and their knowledge of how these kinds of data are constituted. Investigating how observational research is oriented to and constituted by the observed allows for a better understanding of what at that moment and in that setting is deemed recording-appropriate or -inappropriate conduct, and offers a more nuanced perspective on how data are co-constituted. SAGE 2015-09-03 Article PeerReviewed Hazel, Spencer (2015) The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed. Qualitative Research, 16 (4). pp. 446-467. ISSN 1741-3109 conversation analysis observer's paradox research methods situated activities social identity construction http://qrj.sagepub.com/content/16/4/446 doi:10.1177/1468794115596216 doi:10.1177/1468794115596216
spellingShingle conversation analysis
observer's paradox
research methods
situated activities
social identity construction
Hazel, Spencer
The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed
title The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed
title_full The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed
title_fullStr The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed
title_full_unstemmed The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed
title_short The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed
title_sort paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed
topic conversation analysis
observer's paradox
research methods
situated activities
social identity construction
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36292/
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https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36292/