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Experiencing the Run: ‘Go-Along’ and ‘Video-Ethnography’

Experiencing the Run: ‘Go-Along’ and ‘Video-Ethnography’. Simon Cook | Plymouth University RGS-IBG Postgraduate Mid-Term Conference 2013. Mobile Turn. Recent resurgence on writings on mobility and movement (Merriman, 2012 )

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Experiencing the Run: ‘Go-Along’ and ‘Video-Ethnography’

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  1. Experiencing the Run: ‘Go-Along’ and ‘Video-Ethnography’ Simon Cook | Plymouth University RGS-IBG Postgraduate Mid-Term Conference 2013

  2. Mobile Turn Recent resurgence on writings on mobility and movement (Merriman, 2012) Previously largely ignored or trivialised terms (Sheller and Urry, 2006) Movement is meaningful and power-laden (Cresswell, 2001) Affects relationships with places, spaces, people, time and others (Finchamet al, 2010)

  3. Mobile Methods The recent interest is movement and mobile practices has challenged existing research methods and ask new questions of research techniques Traditional social science methods have dealt poorly with the fleeting, complex, sensory, emotional and kinaesthetic (Law and Urry, 2004) Recent upsurge and innovation in new methods tailored to research mobile phenomena, subjects and practices (Büscheret al, 2010)

  4. Running and Mobilities Running has eluded sustained study in the social sciences (Bale, 2004) Road-running involves the sharing and recycling of non-specialised spaces No methodological precedent

  5. The Go Along Essentially a hybrid of an interview on the move and participant observation Deep engagement with participants’ worldviews In order to know what it feels to be a runner, one is obliged to go the extra mile (Vettenniemia, 2012) Method

  6. Video Ethnography • Recent upsurge in geographical research using videographic methods (Simpson, 2011) • Pseudo-mobile • Enables the moment to be captured, retained, analysed and scrutinised • Method The camera’s eye Does not lie But it cannot show The life within The life of a runner Of your or mine Extract from The Runner - W.H. Auden

  7. Go Along – Practical Difficulties Injury Tiredness Multi-tasking Dictaphone

  8. Video-Ethnography Practical Difficulties Fixed camera angle Noises Battery life Positioning the camera

  9. Go Along – Experiencing the Run Not a normal run Great rapport Entering the participants running world Responding to events and creating context Communicate meanings, understandings and feelings Unable to capture the moment

  10. Video Ethnography – Experiencing the Run Capture and relive the moment of a normal run Reveal the often unseen or unnoticed Understand how bodies interact and negotiate spaces, environments and others Predominance of sight Emotions, experiences and sensory aspects lost

  11. Multi-Mobile-Methods Together the techniques could form a formidable and holistic methodology Go- Along: understanding meanings, perspectives and feelings Video-Ethnography: understanding the actions, details and how the run is accomplished Negotiating Pedestrians

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