TY - JOUR
T1 - Empathetic technologies: digital materiality and video ethnography
AU - Pink, Sarah
AU - Sumartojo, Shanti
AU - Lupton, Deborah
AU - Heyes LaBond, Christine
N1 - Funding Information:
Sarah Pink’s research into self-tracking technologies contributes to her participation in the Sensing, Shaping, Sharing project funded by the RJ, Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, 2014-18.
Funding Information:
Sarah Pink’s research into self-tracking technologies contributes to her participation in the Sensing, Shaping, Sharing project funded by the Swedish Research Council (2014-18). We are most grateful to all the participants in this project who gave up their time to be part of it.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 International Visual Sociology Association.
PY - 2017/10/2
Y1 - 2017/10/2
N2 - In this article, we advance recent theoretical and methodological discussions regarding the use of video techniques for generating empathetic encounters. We do so through a focus on how these techniques might be rendered in research conducted through sites of action and experience that are explicitly constituted through forms of digital materiality, whereby the digital and material are understood as relational and emergent. We argue for a processual view of digital materiality and in correspondence with this, of the research process, whereby empathetic imagining is itself understood as emergent from the research encounter. By way of example we draw on recent video ethnography research that has used GoPro and researcher-held video recording in collaboration with participants, in order to record and develop understandings of their experiences of self-tracking and cycle commuting.
AB - In this article, we advance recent theoretical and methodological discussions regarding the use of video techniques for generating empathetic encounters. We do so through a focus on how these techniques might be rendered in research conducted through sites of action and experience that are explicitly constituted through forms of digital materiality, whereby the digital and material are understood as relational and emergent. We argue for a processual view of digital materiality and in correspondence with this, of the research process, whereby empathetic imagining is itself understood as emergent from the research encounter. By way of example we draw on recent video ethnography research that has used GoPro and researcher-held video recording in collaboration with participants, in order to record and develop understandings of their experiences of self-tracking and cycle commuting.
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U2 - 10.1080/1472586X.2017.1396192
DO - 10.1080/1472586X.2017.1396192
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85038004404
SN - 1472-586X
VL - 32
SP - 371
EP - 381
JO - Visual Studies
JF - Visual Studies
IS - 4
ER -