A Research Methodology of Interdependence through Video as Method

Abstract

Abstract Responding to a need in rhetoric and composition for more attention to digital methodologies and methods, this paper offers one detailed example of the interdependent, messy process of designing, conducting, and continually reconceptualizing digital writing research that uses video. I begin by reviewing research that uses video methods within the field. Then, I narrate how processes of gathering data with video cameras, analyzing data with a video editor, and presenting multimodal products have caused me to rethink and rearticulate my own methodology and methods in a way that better acknowledges the complexity of the research scene and the researcher's interdependent role in the co-construction of meaning. I urge all digital writing researchers to more consciously participate in a similar critical reflective process about their own methodology and methods.