Table of Contents

Introduction: Putting Things in Motion Charlotte Bates 1. Intimate Encounters: Making Video Diaries About Embodied Everyday Life Charlotte Bates 2. Atmospheres of Arrival/Departure and Multi-Angle Video Recording: Reflections from St Pancras and Gare du Nord Paul Simpson 3. The Mobile Life of Screens: Digital Imaging on School Journeys in Helsinki Kim Kullman 4. Witnessing Craft: Employing Video Ethnography to Attend to the More-Than-Human Craft Practices of Taxidermy Merle Patchett 5. Close Encounters: Using Mobile Video Ethnography to Understand Human-Animal Relations Katrina M. Brown and Esther Banks 6. Jumps, Stutters, Blurs and Other Failed Images: Using Time-Lapse Video in Cycling Research Katrina Jungnickel 7. Creative Video Ethnographies: Video Methodologies of Urban Exploration Bradley L. Garrett and Harriet Hawkins 8. Working with Sound in Video: Producing an Experimental Documentary About School Spaces Michael Gallagher 9. "Everything Is Going On at the Same Time": The Place of Video in Social Research Installations Britt Hatzius and Nina Wakeford 10. Life Off Grid: Considerations for a Multi-Sited, Public Ethnographic Film Jonathan Taggart and Phillip Vannini Afterword: Video Methods Beyond Representation: Experimenting with Multimodal, Sensuous, Affective Intensities in the 21st Century Phillip Vannini

About the Author

Charlotte Bates gained her Ph.D. in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, with a thesis entitled Vital Bodies: A Visual Sociology of Health and Illness in Everyday Life. Her work has been published in Sociological Research Online and Visual Studies.