Presented to: Séminaire international sur les méthodes d’enquêtes qualitatives
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Presented to:Séminaire international sur les méthodes d’enquêtes qualitatives
appliquées à la compréhension du consommateur
Faculté des sciences humaines et sociales – SorbonneParis, January 2007
The Use of Video Diaries in Ethnographic Consumer ResearchJournaux Vidéo d’Ethnographie réalisés avec des Consommateurs
Patricia L. Sunderland, Ph.D. and Rita M. Denny, Ph.D.
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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
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What are Video Diaries?
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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)
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An Ethnographic Method
Asthma – on the way to the hospitalwww.viaproject.org
Cystic Fibrosis – coughing bloodwww.viaproject.org
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A Contemporary Motif
• A method of power and promise, technology-enabled• Resonant with contemporary cultural practices
– YouTube– Video Blogs (vlogs)– Google video, etc.
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A Contemporary Motif
• Extension of the reality TV (ad, and everyday) world
L’Oréal adMay ‘05
Parisienne August ‘05
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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’
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For Example
• Investigating (the performance of) beer in the larger life of young men
Short Version Long Version
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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.
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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)
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For Example
• For existing products and process
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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
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For Example
• Pickup trucks: inherent action in their use
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For Example
• Reflections on category and brand
Short Version Long Version
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In the End
• Respondent-created documentary…