Sormani2022
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Sormani2022 |
| Author(s) | Philippe Sormani |
| Title | Recovering the Work of a Discovering Science with a Video Camera in Hand: The Electronically Probed/Visually Discovered Spectrum |
| Editor(s) | Douglas W. Maynard, John Heritage |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Science, Video, Discovering |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year | 2022 |
| Language | English |
| City | New York, NY |
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| Pages | 322–347 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780190854409.003.0012 |
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| Book title | The Ethnomethodology Program: Legacies and Prospects |
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Abstract
This chapter delivers a hybrid study of discovering work in the form of a practice-based video analysis. The video analysis explicates the author’s practical involvement in the local production of an empirical discovery in current physics: multi-band superconductivity in lead molybdenum sulphide (PbMo6S8). Devised as an ad hoc extension of a physics tutorial, the proposed analysis makes explicit the procedures through which the physical phenomenon, as an electronically probed and visually discovered spectrum, is produced and seen for a very first time. Readers, in other words, are taught the experimental and heuristic achievement in and as its “tutorial problems” (Garfinkel 2002a, c). The local production of scientific discoveries—in their audiovisual, disciplinarily relevant, and instrumentally embodied detail—has eluded ethnomethodological and social studies of scientific work. The outlined study fills this gap in the literature. At the same time, it makes the case for technical self-instruction as a research stance, as articulated in Harold Garfinkel’s later work, while spelling out that stance’s reflexive interest for the video analysis of discovering work and, possibly, other kinds of work and lines of analysis, too.
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