Universität Wien

230079 SE Ethnographic film/ social science film (2020W)

Audio-visual material in research, analysis and communication

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 35 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 08.10. 08:30 - 10:30 Digital
  • Thursday 15.10. 08:30 - 10:30 Digital
  • Thursday 22.10. 08:30 - 10:30 Digital
  • Thursday 29.10. 08:30 - 10:30 Digital
  • Thursday 05.11. 08:30 - 10:30 Digital
  • Thursday 12.11. 08:30 - 10:30 Digital
  • Thursday 19.11. 08:30 - 10:30 Digital
  • Thursday 26.11. 08:30 - 10:30 Digital
  • Thursday 03.12. 08:30 - 10:30 Digital
  • Thursday 10.12. 08:30 - 10:30 Digital
  • Thursday 17.12. 08:30 - 10:30 Digital
  • Thursday 14.01. 08:30 - 10:30 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The purpose of the course is to provide students with an insight into the logic and approach of qualitative research using film. More recently, the possibilities for publishing sociological films have become established, such as the Online Journal Senate Journal (http://sensatejournal.com). The lecture will also cover the well-known The Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) at Harvard University, a project that promotes and develops film as a social science method (https://sel.fas.harvard.edu/index.html).
On the basis of students´own short film projects, basic principles of qualitative research with film are thought methodologically and practically. The participants plan their own empirical "small projects" on the basis of teaching inputs and the reading of current literature, on the basis of which use of different qualitative instruments is learned and finally a separate short film is created.
The curriculum teaches basic principles of editing, camera management, and social science film language.

Assessment and permitted materials

The following performance components must be fulfilled in the course of the course:
1) Presence in presence times (Absence in 2 lectures is allowed).
2) Reading the basic texts
3) Delivery of the house exercises
4) Submission of the film and a written methodological reflection

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Classroom participation (20%)
Presentations of the film work during the plenary sessions and handing-out of house exercises (30%)
Final film (50%)

Examination topics

Reading list

Pflichtliteratur für das Plenum
Miko, Katharina, 2013. Visuelles Nosing Around: Zur theoretischen Fundierung visualisierter Wissenschaftskommunikation. Soziale Welt. Zeitschrift für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Praxis (4): 153-170.
Pink, Sarah, 2007: Doing visual ethnography. Los Angeles, Calif.: SAGE, S 168-190
(Optional) Goodwin, Charles, 1994: Professional Vision. American Anthropologist 96(3): 606-633.
Bina Elisabeth Mohn,2013: Differenzen zeigender Ethnographie in: Soziale Welt (4), Seite 171 - 189.
Rouch, Jean, 1995: The Camera and Man. In: Hockings, Paul (ed.), 1995: Principles of Visual Anthropology. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, S 79-98.

Whiting, R., Symon, G., Roby, H., & Chamakiotis, P. (2018). Who’s behind the lens? A reflexive analysis of roles in participatory video research. Organizational Research Methods, 21(2), 316-340.
Rose, G.. 2014: On the relation between ‘visual research methods’ and contemporary visual culture, Sociological Review, February 2014, Vol.62(1), pp.24-46.

Association in the course directory

Die Lehrveranstaltung kann für jede Forschungsspezialisierung des Masterstudiums Soziologie herangezogen werden, sofern dies inhaltlich zu Ihrem Masterarbeitsvorhaben passt bzw. mit dem Betreuer oder der Betreuerin abgesprochen wurde.

Last modified: Fr 12.05.2023 00:20