On Tuesday August 31st at 12.00, Mobile Life organises a seminar with Eric Laurier. The seminar is held in the seminar room ‘Knuth’ at SICS and lasts for approximately one hour.

Title: Methodologies, in, of and with video

Abstract: Video activities in domestic and professional settings are still a relatively new domain of investigation yet a growing one with the increasing spread and varied use of video technologies. At the same time video recording and analysis has been developing amongst researchers of workplaces and everyday life. We are now faced with an interesting meeting between these two areas in video studies of video activities. In this paper I will sketch out a map of this emerging area and also draw on a number of ethnographic studies of editing settings made during the ESRC-funded Assembling the Line project in order to reflect on where this research might take us in understanding video work.