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The Use of Video Diaries in Ethnographic Consumer Research Journaux Vidéo d’Ethnographie réalisés avec des Consommateurs. Patricia L. Sunderland, Ph.D. and Rita M. Denny, Ph.D. Presented to: Séminaire international sur les méthodes d’enquêtes qualitatives
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The Use of Video Diaries in Ethnographic Consumer Research Journaux Vidéo d’Ethnographie réalisés avec des Consommateurs Patricia L. Sunderland, Ph.D. and Rita M. Denny, Ph.D. Presented to: Séminaire international sur les méthodes d’enquêtes qualitatives appliquées à la compréhension du consommateur Faculté des sciences humaines et sociales – Sorbonne Paris, January 2007
What are Video Diaries? • An extension of an ethnographic endeavor • Respondent-created video products • Before or after another ethnographic encounter • Stretching the time and place of our knowledge • Making research a partnership www.practicagroup.com
What are Video Diaries? www.practicagroup.com
An Ethnographic Method • A tradition in ethnographic film (Nanook of the North to Jean Rouch) • Utilized by others in academic and applied realms, e.g., • Maria Pini with young women in UK, changing modes of femininity and issues of social class, etc. (www.women.it/cyberarchive/files/pini) • VIA = Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment, diaries of asthma, cystic fibrosis, overweight, diabetes, etc. Michael Rich, Richard Chalfen et al. (www.viaproject.org) www.practicagroup.com
An Ethnographic Method Asthma – on the way to the hospital www.viaproject.org Cystic Fibrosis – coughing blood www.viaproject.org www.practicagroup.com
A Contemporary Motif • A method of power and promise, technology-enabled • Resonant with contemporary cultural practices • YouTube • Video Blogs (vlogs) • Google video, etc. www.practicagroup.com
A Contemporary Motif • Extension of the reality TV (ad, and everyday) world L’Oréal ad May ‘05 Parisienne August ‘05
Critical Possibilities • Client concern: Are they performing? Is it ‘real’? • Yes, performance and yes, it’s real • Performance a constitutive part of social life • Transmits/telegraphs cultural details • Frame of the performance itself informative • Infused with content and context of daily life • Overall, like all data, a ‘text’ (or ‘sensa’) to be interpreted, not the ‘truth’ www.practicagroup.com
For Example • Investigating (the performance of) beer in the larger life of young men Long Version Short Version www.practicagroup.com
Critical Possibilities • Retains social worlds and relations • Friends and family helping out (and hindering) • Joking, interacting • People (and products) do not exist in isolation • Real life events (can’t help but) infuse diary-making For instance, Dad et al.
Critical Possibilities • Video diaries provide micro-details • Time and place extension to processes • Life in cars, cooking, cleaning, working, shopping, etc. • Time and place extension to products • Existing products: What are the pluses, the minuses? • Trying out new products (purchased and placed) www.practicagroup.com
For Example • For existing products and process www.practicagroup.com
Critical Possibilities • One size does not fit all • A word on ‘mistakes’ • The blockbuster: Which movie should I watch? • Runner up: Am I waiting for water to boil or Godot? • But, can be extremely good, when there is • Something new • Something to show, inherent action • Something to say • About the category or brand • The brand/product relationship www.practicagroup.com
For Example • Pickup trucks: inherent action in their use www.practicagroup.com
For Example • Reflections on category and brand Long Version Short Version www.practicagroup.com
In the End • Respondent-created documentary… www.practicagroup.com