Video Interaction Analysis Lab: Working Processes as Relation Building in Times of Unrest

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

In this working roundtable, we collectively wonder about the production and maintenance of sociotechnical relations while doing interaction analysis (IA), and the implications for describing and expanding the methodology of IA. Specifically, we seek to write into the record details of relationship building that are central to lab work but often remain unacknowledged by traditional monetary or academic currency. In the face of outcome-driven pressures to streamline the science-to-product trajectory, we argue not just for continuing to support basic science—the study of fundamental principles and concepts, regardless of their expected market value—but for acknowledging and uplifting the relational practices that make any investigation possible. More than mere infrastructure, however, we argue that these practices are also epistemological and theoretical.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Learning Sciences

Chair

• Lana Cosic, Vanderbilt University

Papers

• Analyzing in Community: The Generous and Generative Nature of Lab Relationships - Erica Lee Payne, Vanderbilt University; Tessaly Jen, Vanderbilt University

• Expanding Multiplicities as Warrants for Claims in Interaction Analysis - Candice Love, University of Maryland

• “Welcome back to our channel!” – Reframing the Role of the Camera in Video Research - Lana Cosic, Vanderbilt University; Sarah Jaewon Lee, University of Washington

• Interaction Analysis in Conversation with a Radical Black Politics of Visuality - Natalie Annabelle Rae, Pennsylvania State University

• Engaging with the Hidden Record: Surfacing the Felt and More-Than-Human in Video Analysis - Lana Cosic, Vanderbilt University; Tessaly Jen, Vanderbilt University

Session Organizer

• Lana Cosic, Vanderbilt University

Discussants

• Kate Chapman

• Bethany Daniel, Vanderbilt University