Video in Qualitative Research: Analysing Social Interaction in Everday Life

Video provides unprecedented opportunities for social science research, enabling the fine-grained analysis of social organisation, culture and communication. This is the first book to provide practical guidance for both students and academics on how to use video in qualitative research, how to address the problems and issues that arise in undertaking video-based field studies and how to subject video recordings to detailed scrutiny and analysis.

Heath, Hindmarsh and Luff consider the ethical and practical issues that arise in recording and gathering data as well as how video enables new and distinctive ways of presenting insights, observations and findings to both academic and practitioner audiences. The book discusses a range of video-based projects including studies of control centres, operating theatres, medical consultations, auction houses and museums and galleries.

Video in Qualitative Research is a valuable guide for students and researchers across the social sciences thinking of using video as part of their research.