The Video Data Set as an Ethnographic Field: A Postdigital Scopic Regime for Education Research in the Anthropocene
摘要
High-quality and affordable audio-visual technologies are now readily available such that what takes place in any school classroom is increasingly able to be comprehensively recorded in digital video form. In this chapter, we pose the question: How can we construct processes of datafication and analysis of this potentially endless landscape of images and sounds in ways that transcend algorithmic pattern seeking to assert the rich, experiential nature of meaning-making that underpins transformative education processes and our own lives as researchers? We present a conceptual response, emerging from our empirical video work, that engaging with an expansive video data set as an ethnographic field permits spatial, temporal, and corporeal ways of seeing as part of a postdigital scopic regime for education research in the Anthropocene. We argue that such an approach can grow, in the words of Bernard Stiegler, our savoir vivre, savoir faire, savoir théoriques, and savoir recherches, in our increasingly proletarianised world in which we are possibly at risk of forgetting our humanity as education researchers.