Roles and Reusability of Video Data in Social Studies of Interaction: SCARP Case Study No. 5 Summary and Recommendations

摘要

Social science researchers are making increasing use of digital video. All of us, researchersudor not, have an alluring range of commercial web sites for sharing video, although these doudnot cater for long-term reuse of video in research. But what kind of roles does video fulfil asudresearch data? And what curation issues and challenges does video raise for researchersudand their institutions? The phenomenal growth in public use of digital video is a topic of socialudresearch; in the first six months of 2008, users of Youtube uploaded more video footage thanudthe top three U.S. TV networks would have broadcast if they had been operating 24 hoursudper day over their sixty-year lifespan (Wesch, 2008). Yet there have been few studies ofudsocial scientists’ own uses of digital video data in their research.