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The future of 'video' in video-based qualitative research is not 'dumb' flat pixels! Exploring volumetric performance capture and immersive performative replay.
- Source :
- Qualitative Research; Dec2020, Vol. 20 Issue 6, p800-818, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Qualitative research that focuses on social interaction and talk has been increasingly based, for good reason, on collections of audiovisual recordings in which 2D flat-screen video and mono/stereo audio are the dominant recording media. This article argues that the future of 'video' in video-based qualitative studies will move away from 'dumb' flat pixels in a 2D screen. Instead, volumetric performance capture and immersive performative replay rely on a procedural camera/spectator-independent representation of a dynamic real or virtual volumetric space over time. It affords analytical practices of re-enactment – shadowing or redoing modes of seeing/listening as an active spectation for 'another next first time' – which play on the tense relationships between live performance, observability, spectatorship and documentation. Three examples illustrate how naturally occurring social interaction and settings can be captured volumetrically and re-enacted immersively in virtual reality (VR) and what this means for data integrity, evidential adequacy and qualitative analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14687941
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Qualitative Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 147160108
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794120905460