Mondada2009
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Lorenza Mondada |
| Title | Video Recording Practices and the Reflexive Constitution of the Interactional Order: Some Systematic Uses of the Split-Screen Technique |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Journal | Human Studies |
| Volume | 32 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 67–99 |
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10746-009-9110-8 |
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Abstract
In this paper, I deal with video data not as a transparent window on social interaction but as a situated product of video practices. This perspective invites an analysis of the practices of video-making, considering them as having a configuring impact on both on the way in which social interaction is documented and the way in which it is locally interpreted by video-makers. These situated interpretations and online analyses reflexively shape not only the record they produce but also the interactional order itself as it is documented. Dealing with practices of video-making not as a resource but as a topic, I explore a particular editing practice, the use of the split-screen technique, consisting in combining various camera views within the same image. This technique is now widely used in cinema, professional settings, TV, and social research. I focus on its uses in TV talk shows and debates: through a systematic sequential analysis of the positions where split screen is introduced, I show that directors do orient to the sequential features of interaction in using this technique and that, conversely, their uses of split screen reveal their local understanding�and configuring�of what the interactional dimension of debates and interviews consist of, for all practical purposes.
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