[Linganth] Audio and video recording recs

[Steven Patrick Black]

Hi all,
These are all great suggestions. I just wanted to also add that there’s a wonderful discussion of many of these practical issues in a chapter by Gregory Kohler and Keith Murphy, “Audio-Video Technology for and in the Field: A Primer” in Sabina Perrino and Sonya Pritzker’s edited volume Research Methods in Linguistic Anthropology; and if you are interested in some of the ethical and theoretical considerations surrounding use of and choice of recorders, I’ve got a piece in American Anthropologist (2017, vol 119 issue 1) about this, titled “Anthropological Ethics and the Communicative Affordances of Audio-Video Recorders in Ethnographic Fieldwork: Transduction as Theory.”
Take care,
Steve

Steven P. Black
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Anthropology
Georgia State University


From: Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Elizabeth Keating <Elizabeth.Keating at austin.utexas.edu>
Date: Monday, June 10, 2024 at 3:37 AM
To: Garza, Joyhanna Yoo <j.y.garza at csus.edu>, linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org <linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Cc: Michele Koven <koven.michele at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Linganth] Audio and video recording recs
Hi all,

I second the backup recorder idea. I’ve had a few times when my backup recorder has saved me from that particularly horrible self-flogging grief after irretrievable loss of precious words (one time is all it took).

Best,

Elizabeth


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From: Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> On Behalf Of Garza, Joyhanna Yoo
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Subject: Re: [Linganth] Audio and video recording recs

I just wanted to chime in and say I always have a second backup device (cheap but effective Olympus recorder) which has saved me since there are interruptions you can't always account for (for instance, when you get a public safety alert on your phone).
Best,
Joyhanna
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Subject: Re: [Linganth] Audio and video recording recs

Friends,
I think it depends on where you are recording and what you plan to do with the recording. I once had to record a crucial interview in a sports bar in Manhattan. If I had not used a recorder with two mics that could be pointed at a 90-degree angle and directed at the interviewee, the ambient noise would have rendered the recording useless. And there are times when pointing the mics outwards at a 180-degree angle helps (but most cell phones are, I suspect, about as useful here). So, the question for me is, what’s the soundscape?
Best to all,
Charles


On Jun 9, 2024, at 4:46 PM, Michele Koven <koven.michele at gmail.com<mailto:koven.michele at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi all,

I was wondering about what devices people are currently using or can recommend for audio and video recording. I have seen earlier discussions of this, but technology changes so fast. I may be recording live political speeches given outdoors. My preference is for easy to use, lightweight, and small. ( In fact, if there were a way to optimize my iPhone 13, that would almost be preferable, but I can imagine that is not quite enough?)

Thank you!

Michele Koven
Professor, Department of Communication
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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