Exploring Runners' Experiences through Video-Ethnography
Delve into the world of running and mobilities through the innovative methods of video-ethnography, go-along interviews, and mobile research practices. Discover the meaningful relationships between movement, spaces, and individuals, challenging traditional research methods. Explore the practical difficulties faced in capturing the essence of running through video-ethnography and the deep engagement required for participant observation.
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Experiencing the Run: Go- Along and Video-Ethnography Simon Cook | Plymouth University RGS-IBG Postgraduate Mid-Term Conference 2013
Mobile Turn Recent resurgence on writings on mobility and movement (Merriman, 2012) Previously largely ignored or trivialised terms (Sheller and Urry, 2006) Movement is meaningful and power-laden (Cresswell, 2001) Affects relationships with places, spaces, people, time and others (Fincham et al, 2010)
Mobile Methods The recent interest is movement and mobile practices has challenged existing research methods and ask new questions of research techniques Traditional social science methods have dealt poorly with the fleeting, complex, sensory, emotional and kinaesthetic (Law and Urry, 2004) Recent upsurge and innovation in new methods tailored to research mobile phenomena, subjects and practices (B scher et al, 2010)
Running and Mobilities Running has eluded sustained study in the social sciences (Bale, 2004) Road-running involves the sharing and recycling of non- specialised spaces No methodological precedent
The Go Along Essentially a hybrid of an interview on the move and participant observation Deep engagement with participants worldviews In order to know what it feels to be a runner, one is obliged to go the extra mile (Vettenniemia, 2012) Method
Video Ethnography Recent upsurge in geographical research using videographic methods (Simpson, 2011) The camera s eye Does not lie But it cannot show The life within The life of a runner Of your or mine Pseudo-mobile Enables the moment to be captured, retained, analysed and scrutinised Extract from The Runner - W.H. Auden Method
Go Along Practical Difficulties Injury Tiredness Multi-tasking Dictaphone
Video-Ethnography Practical Difficulties Fixed camera angle Noises Battery life Positioning the camera
Go Along Experiencing the Run Not a normal run Great rapport Entering the participants running world Responding to events and creating context Communicate meanings, understandings and feelings Unable to capture the moment
Video Ethnography Experiencing the Run Capture and relive the moment of a normal run Reveal the often unseen or unnoticed Understand how bodies interact and negotiate spaces, environments and others Predominance of sight Emotions, experiences and sensory aspects lost
Multi-Mobile-Methods Together the techniques could form a formidable and holistic methodology Go- Along: understanding meanings, perspectives and feelings Video-Ethnography: understanding the actions, details and how the run is accomplished Negotiating Pedestrians
