Digital media, conventional methods: using video interviews to study the labor of digital journalism

Tai Neilson

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96713-4_9

Digital media, conventional methods: using video interviews to study the labor of digital journalism

Tai Neilson

Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies

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Abstract

Interviews produce textual data, they are interpretive, and are opened to new potentialities through video link-up applications, textual analysis software, digital archiving, and web hosting. This chapter is a methodological treatise based on research conducted via video interviews with journalists in New Zealand and the US. It outlines the benefits and limitations of adapting interview research as part of a Digital Humanities approach. The chapter is animated by a set of questions, including: (1) How are interview methods best adapted to digital contexts? (2) How can interviewing be incorporated into Digital Humanities as a field? and, (3) In the context of news production, how can interviews be used to critically investigate practices and theories of digital labor?

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research methods for the digital humanities
Editors	lewis levenberg, Tai Neilson, David Rheams
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	9
Pages	151-171
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319967134
ISBN (Print)	9783319967127
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96713-4_9
Publication status	Published - 2018

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