[Visinfo] IGERT week #3

[Corina S. Schweller]

IGERT Week #3
"An Interactional Ethnographic Approach to Video Analysis" Judith Green

The IGERT seminar dealt with analyzing and archiving video. Judith 
Green studies classrooms and public spaces in order to find patterns of 
action, talk, and activity. She describes the classroom as a 'cultural 
setting' and archives the human activity that occurs over a period of 
time. This archiving is related to ethnograpy and the mapping of 
naturally occurring language and actions. Event mapping represents the 
flow of conduct between members of a socaila group. It also all depends 
on the point of view that the event is seen from. Green studies 
contextualization cues, such as proxemic and kenesic shifts, and the 
contrast of events in order to map events. Grren used a popular 
American movie to show how humans change behavior based on evens and 
interactions.
The movie "Groundhog Day" shows how our environment shapes our actions 
and the effect of humn interaction.