Video Analysis: Methodology and Methods

Hubert Knoblauch is Professor of Sociology at the Technical University Berlin. Bernt Schnettler is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bayreuth. Both are conducting research on interaction, communicative genres and social forms and have build up laboratories of video analysis.Jürgen Raab is Professor of Sociology at the University of Magdeburg.Hans-Georg Soeffner is Professor emeritus at the University of Konstanz and former President of the German Sociological Association. They have developed and applied an original approach to visual data called Sociological Hermeneutics.

• Contents: Hubert Knoblauch/Bernt Schnettler/Jürgen Raab: Video-Analysis. Methodological Aspects of Interpretive Audiovisual Analysis in Social Research – Thomas Luckmann: Some Remarks on Scores in Multimodal Sequential Analysis – Christian Heath/Paul Luff: Video Analysis and Organisational Practice – Lorenza Mondada: Video Recording as the Reflexive Preservation and Configuration of Phenomenal Features for Analysis – Hubert Knoblauch: Videography. Focused Ethnography and Video Analysis – Jürgen Raab/Dirk Tänzler: Video Hermeneutics – Dirk vom Lehn/Christian Heath: Discovering Exhibits. Video-Based Studies of Interaction in Museums and Science Centres – Cornelius Schubert: Video Analysis of Practice and the Practice of Video Analysis. Selecting field and focus in videography – Anssi Peräkylä/Johanna Ruusuvuori: Facial Expression in an Assessment – Monika Wagner-Willi: On the Multidimensional Analysis of Video-Data. Documentary Interpretation of Interaction in Schools – Bernt Schnettler: Orchestrating Bullet Lists and Commentaries. A Video Performance Analysis of Computer Supported Presentations – Elisabeth Mohn: Permanent Work on Gazes. Video Ethnography as an Alternative Methodology – Eric Laurier/Chris Philo: Natural Problems of Naturalistic Video Data – Sigrid Schmid: Video Analysis in Qualitative Market Research - from Viscous Reality to Catchy Footage – Hans-Georg Soeffner: Visual Sociology on the Basis of «Visual Concentration».