Hazel2015

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Hazel2015
BibType ARTICLE
Key Hazel2015
Author(s) Spencer Hazel
Title The paradox from within: research participants doing-being-observed
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Tag(s) EMCA, Qualitative methods, Identity, Activity construction, Observation, Conversation Analysis, observer’s paradox, research methods, situated activities, social identity construction
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Year 2015
Language English
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Journal Qualitative Research
Volume 16
Number 4
Pages 446–467
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DOI 10.1177/1468794115596216
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Institution
School
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Howpublished
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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.

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