Review Essay: From Picture Interpretation to Videography—Just a Small Step?

Authors

  • Maud Hietzge PH Freiburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-11.1.1397

Keywords:

videography, interpretation of visual media, sociology of knowledge, habitus, gesture

Abstract

The change of paradigm from text to visuality is not merely a metaphor that is sent to the catwalk, it is an up-to-date theoretical and methodological perspective that is well-established. BOHNSACK's book on picture and video analyses is a fundamental contribution to the literature on the collection of visual data in relation to the documentary method. In this review essay the book will be briefly outlined and later placed within the current methodological discussion. Its main assumptions are examined and its importance for research within the humanities is assessed. Controlled empirical access to visual data implicates an important methodological perspective that enables scientists to trace the incorporation of atheoretical knowledge. A praxeologically sound sociology of knowledge can be approached on the basis of documentary picture analysis. However, there needs to be greater openness to the diversity of videographic methods in the context of a humanities-based hermeneutics, here more favorable than academic rituals of demarcation. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1001111

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Author Biography

Maud Hietzge, PH Freiburg

Maud Corinna HIETZGE hat an der FU Berlin bei GEBAUER und WULF über Ritualtheorien promoviert, ist Akademische Rätin für Sportpädagogik an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Freiburg und freie Mitarbeiterin im BMBF-Projekt StuBSS der Universität Marburg unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Ralf LAGING. Neben bewegungspädagogischen und -didaktischen Fragen liegen die Forschungsinteressen aktuell auf der Aneignung körperlicher Dispositionen, der Emergenz von Bewegungskulturen, videografischen Methoden, nonverbaler Kommunikation und Gouvernementalität. Veröffentlichungen zu Körperritualen, Bewegungssozialisation, Sportethnologie, Semiotik des Sports, Selbstvergewisserung und Evaluation, Spieldidaktik, Zeit und Raum, Bildung und Bewegung.

Published

2009-11-26

How to Cite

Hietzge, M. (2009). Review Essay: From Picture Interpretation to Videography—Just a Small Step?. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-11.1.1397