This book explores the undeveloped potential of video-ethnography to study the material, embodied and sensory dimensions of workplace practices. With the growing interest in sociomateriality and the development of research on the embodied and sensory dimensions of organizational practices, some methodological challenges of this type of research need to be addressed. The main purpose of this book is to present various forms of video-ethnography that make organizational phenomena visible and help better appreciate the organizing properties of bodies, affects, senses and spaces in workplace practices. To do so, illustrative cases based on video-ethnography was discussed to understand how experiential and unspoken ways of knowing produced through a video-based approach can be made meaningful and relevant to study the material, embodied and sensory dimension of work practices. This book is addressed to researchers and students in social sciences and organizational studies and offers a methodological reflection on how to study the material, embodied, and sensory dimensions of organizational life.

 

Chapter 1- Introduction. - Part 1- Video-Ethnography and Reflexivity-In-Practice: Making Visible the Embodied and Sensory Dimensions of Work Practices

Chapter 2 - Video-ethnography and Video-reflexive Ethnography: Investigating and Expanding Learning about Complex Realities
Chapter 3 - The Epistemic Use of the Body in Medical Radiology: Insights from Interactional Video-Ethnography
Chapter 4 - The Two-sides of Video-ethnography for Studying "Sensing-at-distance"
Part 2: Video-Ethnography and Organizing Spaces: Sensing Places and the Multiple Nature of Working Spaces
Chapter 5 - Practicing Diffraction in Video-based Research
Chapter 6 - Using Video Methods to Uncover the Relational, Interactional and Practical Constitution of Space
Chapter 7 - Participant Viewpoint Ethnography and Mobile Organizing
Part 3: "Outsider" and "Insider" Video-Ethnographer: Exploring Multimodal and Multisensorial Workplace Settings
Chapter 8 - Doing Video Ethnography Research with Top Management Teams
Chapter 9 - Complementing Video-ethnography: The Uses and Potential of Mundane Data Collected on Social Media.