Suchergebnisse

Interkulturelle Veranstaltungen – begonnen bei großen Festivals über Karnevalsumzüge bis hin zu kleinen Literaturstammtischen oder Kochworkshops – sind für Bernd Rebstein Ausgangspunkt einer extensiv geführten Videographie sozialer Welten. Ausgehend von der detaillierten Beschreibung einer bislang unerforschten städtischen Sozialwelt, dem ›Fremdkulturellen Vermittlungsmilieu‹, beschreitet der Autor neue Wege in der qualitativen Kultur- und Integrationsforschung. Nicht zuletzt gibt er damit einer kommunikations- und handlungszentrierten Milieutheorie vielfältige Impulse.

This article is an example of the practical application of natural video recordings to qualitative research. It describes the videographic method in relation to an ongoing project concerned with forms of knowledge communication within the field of migration. In this field, our visual approach provides a novel perspective on the well-known questions of cross-cultural communication and integration. Firstly, I want to discuss Videography and Genre Analysis in the form of an iterative, audiovisual data collection procedure and define the process of sequence selection and interpretation. Secondly, I will demonstrate how communicative structures are analyzed at different levels of Genre Analysis through the minute analysis of a short audiovisual data sequence from a roadshow that took place during a Latin American theme week. As well as detailing the process of gathering information on a situational level, I want to demonstrate the potential of the analysis to gather information about the structural environment on a transsituational level. Through this discussion, I will also outline the importance of additional contextual information that – by means of further ethnographic research – could be uncovered in our fieldwork.

Documentation of the 2010 Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association Research Network 20 Qualitative Methods "Innovating Qualitative Research: Challenges and Opportunities. New Directions in Religion, Technology, Migration and Beyond," held at the University of Bayreuth (Germany), 20-22 September 2010. The following documentation includes the inaugural addresses and all statements and interventions from the two plenary sessions on "The Future of Qualitative Research" that took place during the mid-term conference in September 2010 at the University of Bayreuth. Speeches and discussions were entirely videotaped, transcribed and carefully edited in order to present a thorough and readable documentation. The text was revised by all intervening speakers and is published upon unanimous approval. We are grateful to Carolin Dix for valuable support with transcribing the video data.