Ethics in Praxis: Negotiating the Role and Functions of a Video Camera in family therapy

Hutchby, I., O'Reilly, M., & Parker, N. (2013). Ethics in Praxis: Negotiating the Role and Functions of a Video Camera in Family Therapy. Discourse Studies, 14(6), 675-690. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445612457487 . Copyright © 2012 SAGE. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.The use of video for research purposes is something that has attracted ethical attention and debate. While the usefulness of video as a mechanism to collect data is widely agreed, the ethical sensitivity and impact of recording equipment is more contentious. In some clinical settings the presence of a camera has a dual role, as a portal to a reflecting team and as a recording device to obtain research data. Using data from one such setting, family therapy sessions, this article shows how the role played by recording equipment is negotiated in the course of talk and other activities that constitute sessions. Analysis reveals that members of the therapy interaction orient in different ways and for different purposes to the value of recordings. The article concludes that there are layers of benefit to be derived from recording of clinical interactions, including for members themselves, and this has wider implications for the ways in which qualitative research designs in health sciences are evaluated

Ongoing processes of managing consent: the empirical ethics of using video-recording in clinical practice and research

O'Reilly, M., Parker, N., & Hutchby, I. (2011). Ongoing processes of managing consent: The empirical ethics of using video-recording in clinical practice and research. Clinical Ethics, 6(4), 179-185. https://doi.org/10.1258/ce.2011.011040. Copyright © 2011 SAGE. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.Using video to facilitate data collection has become increasingly common in health research. Using video in research, however, does raise additional ethical concerns. In this paper we utilise family therapy data to provide empirical evidence of how recording equipment is treated. We show that families made a distinction between what was observed through the video by the reflecting team and what was being recorded onto videotape. We show that all parties actively negotiated what should and should not go ‘on the record’ with particular attention to sensitive topics and the responsibility of the therapist. Our findings have important implications for both clinical professionals and researchers using video data. We maintain that informed consent should be an ongoing process and with this in mind we present some arguments pertaining to the current debates in this field of health care practice

The Uses of Stance in Media Production: Embodied Sociolinguistics and Beyond

While many conversation analysts, and scholars in related fields, have used video-recordings to study interaction, this study is one of a small but growing number that investigates video-recordings of the joint activities of media professionals working with, and on, video. It examines practices of media production that are, in their involvement with the visual and verbal qualities of video, both beyond talk and deeply shaped by talk. The article draws upon video recordings of the making of a feature-length documentary. In particular, it analyses a complex course of action where an editing team are reviewing their interview of the subject of the documentary, their footage is being intercut with existing reality TV footage of that same interviewee. The central contributions that the article makes are, firstly, to the sociolinguistics of mediatisation, through the identification of the workplace concerns of the members of the editing team, secondly showing how editing is accomplished, moment-by-moment, through the use of particular forms of embodied action and, finally, how the media themselves feature in the ordering of action. While this is professional work it sheds light on the video-mediated practices in contemporary culture, especially those found in social media where video makers carefully consider their editing of the perspective toward themselves and others

Opionionated discourse : communication and conflict in calls to 'talk radio' show.

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Obama in the No Spin Zone

In the run - up to the 2008 American presidential election, the three Senators who were competing to replace outgoing President George W. Bush in the White House ( John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton) each gave extended interviews to cable channel Fox News ' nightly show The O ' Reilly Factor . Billed as the ' No Spin Zone ' , this news programme and its eponymous host, Bill O ' Reilly, pride themselves on cutting through the ' spin ' of political communications machines, the ' bloviation ' of politicians and the ' bias ' of major newspapers and broadcast network news channels to reveal for viewers the ' truth ' or the ' bottom line ' with regard t o current affairs. Because of his willingness to engage in tendentious, argumentative and sometimes confrontational discourse in the course of his interviews , O'Reilly is a controversial figure in contemporary American broadcast news . But despite his belligerent reputation , he has secured many high profile interviews for his show, including at least two major ' sit - downs ' with President Barack Obama. The first of these, conducted during the campaign leading to Obama's success in the 2008 election, provides t he data for this chapter. [First paragraph