The ‘Goggle-Box’ Recording

Abstract

This methodological article introduces and evaluates the use of the ‘Goggle-box’ recording as an ethnographic data collection method. Simply put, the method means video-recording participants watching television within their own homes, as they experience the meanings and materialities that shape their belonging. I argue that the ‘Goggle-box’ recording provided a creative solution to exploring the mundanity of everyday life, which so often marks leisure experiences. This makes it a valuable method for researchers wishing to: explore the sensoriality of everyday leisure experiences, engage with the many interconnections involved in subjective belonging, and produce more substantiate and sustainable challenges to the privileged exclusivity certain subjectivities benefit from. Therefore, this article invites readers to foster their research imaginations, produce creative responses, and consider alternative ways of knowing in their own practice.