Questions asked by audiences
The following questions were asked by members of audiences to whom we
presented this research.
| Isn't it the case that, by never focusing the camera
specifically on the
woman, and by always showing her surrounded by various other people, you end up objectifying
her? |
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Using a wide-angle focus for the camera work, and keeping the angle mostly stable, is
a methodological choice grounded in our interest in the total social process that
encompasses all participants. In this sense all participants are "objectified" by a research that
is less concerned with the personal experiences of any of the participants than by the way
they mutually construct the scene and, by implications, each other. To the extent that any
one might be interested in personal experience, this person must still understand fully the
properties of that which was constructed. These are the properties that our own research is
intended to illuminate. In the long run, we would argue that, by no focusing on the person, one
is in a better position to reveal that which is most powerful at the moment for that person,
whether she knows about it or not. |
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