Spencer Hazel
The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed
Hazel, Spencer
Authors
Abstract
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.
Citation
Hazel, S. (2015). The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed. Qualitative Research, 16(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794115596216
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Acceptance Date | Sep 1, 2014 |
Publication Date | Sep 3, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Sep 6, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 6, 2016 |
Journal | Qualitative Research |
Print ISSN | 1468-7941 |
Electronic ISSN | 1741-3109 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 4 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794115596216 |
Keywords | conversation analysis, observer's paradox, research methods, situated activities, social identity construction |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/762136 |
Publisher URL | http://qrj.sagepub.com/content/16/4/446 |
Files
Hazel_The Paradox from Within.pdf
(22.2 Mb)
PDF
Downloadable Citations
About Repository@Nottingham
Administrator e-mail: digital-library-support@nottingham.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search