HI Chris,
Yes, you are right about the ethical questions, and in fact we had this kind of problem in a recent workshop (ludinno.wikispaces.com) in which we used video for many purposes, including video analysis (video ethnography) and video sketching. We used the wiki to exchange videos between some students and companies and users involved in different projects.
The wiki has some good example of video sketching, but we could not use youtube to exchange videos about the analytical part, because of ethical limitations. It's a shame, because the results of the video analysis were quite interesting, but of course, there is nothing we can do...
However we also found that several ethnographic cases could well be published on youtube, as they did not involve particular ethical issues.
Ciao
Nicola
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Nicola Morelli wrote:
> I've seen several research works using video as an appendix or as a complementary part to the "narrative" section, and I think the complementarity between written and video material is becoming more and more relevant. Right now we are writing the final report for a research project and we will probably insert several links to videos on youtube.
> The open questions, in this case are:
> 1. how do you store this kind of research in a bookshelf?
> 2. how do you render the poetic or the expressive parts of the research in a way that allow for Ken's framework criteria (meta-narrativity and openness/transparency to analysis)? (See Ken's post on 13.12.08)
I'm sure everybody recognises this, especially an experienced researcher
like Nicola, but it's always important to take great care over the
ethical problems of making video material public. And putting material
in a dvd in the back of a thesis or on a research website is different
from putting it on YouTube where anybody might appropriate it. We do use
YouTube for some material as it's very convenient but that should never
be a routine expectation.
Nicola's second question is the really big one. Right now I feel it can
only be answered by individuals and groups thinking carefully about the
actual material in their actual project. Gradually we'll build up some
case material and that was my reason for mentioning some recent examples
and also making one or two examples available via my website.
best wishes from Sheffield
Chris
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