(Im)perfect pictures: snaplogs in performativity research
Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management
ISSN: 1746-5648
Article publication date: 4 May 2012
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore a visual method, snaplog (snapshots and logbooks) from a performativity theory approach.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses empirical examples from a three‐year qualitative research project where snaplogs are used as an experimental method. The paper presents a reading of performativity theory and discusses the performativity of using visual methods in the research process.
Findings
The paper concludes that visual methods have a special ability to activate the field in a way that avoids preconceived ideas, and creates possibilities to observe the researched phenomenon and how it practices, resists and revoices the questions asked by the researchers.
Research limitations/implications
The paper explores and discusses the authors’ experiences and reflections on the positioning and scope of using snaplogs as a visual method. It does not report a systematic evaluation of its implications.
Practical implications
Snaplogs offer the researcher the possibility to activate and cooperate with the researched phenomenon.
Originality/value
The potential value of the paper is that it offers inspiration to organization researchers looking for innovative/performative research methods.
Keywords
Citation
Bramming, P., Gorm Hansen, B., Bojesen, A. and Gylling Olesen, K. (2012), "(Im)perfect pictures: snaplogs in performativity research", Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 54-71. https://doi.org/10.1108/17465641211223465
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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