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Video data and the time-image Title: An-archiving the body
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Video data and the time-image Title: An-archiving the body

Elizabeth de Freitas, Matthew X. Curinga, Maggie MacLure, David Rousell, Laura Trafí-Prats and Sarah E. Truman
Posthuman Social Science and Computational Culture: Essays on Methodology, Theory and Practice, pp.70-82
Routledge, 1st
2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003538769-5
Appears in  Recent Faculty of Education Publications

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Abstract

Video data is currently ubiquitous in social science research. Software protocols for analyzing vast archives of video data are deployed regularly, allowing researchers to annotate, code, and sort images (O'Halloran et al., 2013). Reviews of video research in the Learning Sciences describe how to select an “event” from an extensive video corpus of classroom video, and recommend protocols for how to code these events in terms of student actions, so that one can “interpret events as chunks of time” (Derry et al., 2010, p. 7). These protocols are often applied by researchers without reflection or reference to the extensive philosophical work in film and media studies. The use of video analytic software without adequate attention to how such software is assembles data becomes increasingly problematic as we begin to rely more and more on findings based on this data (Brophy, 2004; Erikson, 2006). This research often treats the video image as movement-image or moving picture, a recording of “raw data,” indexical of a given time-space relationship. I myself have used video data exactly in this way. An example is shown in Figure 5.1, which shows a sequence of video stills developed as part of my collaborative work with Francesca Ferrara (de Freitas & Ferrara, 2015).

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